A FATHER’S PLEA
SON RECEIVES PROBATION
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From (lu> hack of (lu; court, (his morning, a father’s voice was raised in an appeal for leniency for his son, who was charged with the forgery of a cheque.
Mr. Justice' Ostler grunted the young man probation for 10 months, and suppressed his name. Tin* prisoner had pleaded guilty in the lower court, and in reply to the usual question as to whether he had anything to say why sentence should not he. passed, the youth replied. “No, sir.”
“I would like to say something, if 1 may,” came a voice front the hack. "I am ?tis father.”
“Certainly you may,” replied the judge.
The, father then told the judge the son was not normal, and gave details of treatment for nerve trouble. He had been sent, to a farm at Ohnra, and on being paid by cheque thought he could alter it. The father said he realised that he had made a mistake in sending the hoy away from home, hut laid believed it would strengthen him.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17228, 7 April 1930, Page 8
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185A FATHER’S PLEA Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17228, 7 April 1930, Page 8
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