FORGERY OF MORTGAGE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 75, 25 June 1928, Page 5

FORGERY OF MORTGAGE

SOLICITOR SENTENCED.

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Press Association—Copyright. AUCKLAND, This Day

At the Supreme Court a sentence of three years’ reformative detention, to be concurrent with the terra he

is now serving, was imposed on a solicitor, John Henry Victor Mansell, by Mr Justice Macgregor, on a charge of forgery of a .memorandum of mortgage for £GOO, and causing it to be acted upon as genuine. Mansell is at present serving a sentence of four years’ reformative detention. It was stated that this forgery was one of those acts incidental to the misappropriation for which Mansell bad previously been tried and sentenced. Mr V. R. Meredith, the Crown Solicitor, said the real reason for the charge was to assist a civil action for the removal of the transfer from the register. His Honor said had this charge been brought before Mr Justice Blair when the other charges were, he thought the sentence would have been heavier.