GAOL SENTENCE
WRONG SIGNATURE ON TELEGRAM. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, November 7. Donald Stewart MacKenzie, aged 30, a school teacher, recently discharged from the Roto Roa inebriates’ island where he was a voluntary patient, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment for wrongfully signing another’s name to a telegram without authority. He pleaded guilty. The police said he returned from the island on October 18, having £2O. He went to an hotel and consumed a large quantity of whisky and despatched a telegram to his father requesting £5. He attached the signature of P. E. Norman, who was superintendent of the inebriates’ island.
Mr Wyvern Wilson, the Magistrate, remarked that the offence was a grave one, the maximum penalty being 12 months or a fine of £lOO.
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Southland Times, Issue 22733, 8 November 1935, Page 6
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127GAOL SENTENCE Southland Times, Issue 22733, 8 November 1935, Page 6
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