NOT LONG AT LIBERTY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 985, 30 May 1930, Page 12

NOT LONG AT LIBERTY

ISSUED FOUR BOGUS CHEQUES REFORMATIVE DETENTION Peter Colin Hume was not long out of gaol before he started the issue of valueless cheques among the meri chants of Auckland. Ho was sentenced at the Police Court this mornj ing to 12 months’ reformative detenHume, a labourer, aged 41. was • charged on four counts of obtaining : clothing and money by means of less < j ■valued at £5 19s 6d. afid there was u : j total of £l2 in money. Mr. Purdie j entered a plea of guilty for accused. Chief-Betective Hammond said av- ! cased had opened an account in the National Bank with a deposit »f £ 11. : He went through the amount in two weeks and carried on issuing cheques. ■'Accused has three or four previous ; convictions and twice has been conI vieted and ordered to come up for ! sentence if called upon.’’ added the J chief-detective. "I think it is about I time he was called upon. He has had I his chances and has just been discharged from gaol after doing two months, to which he was sentenced at Hamilton.” Counsel was of the opinion that

drink was the accused’s only trouble. When he was 20 he had been wounded in the head by a revolver bullet, and at the war he had again been wounded in the head. Brink consequently had a particularly bad effect on bis brain. Mr. Purdie asked for the imposition of reformative detention, adding that he thought accused would be best off on the State farm. Hume was sentenced to 3 2 months’ reformative detention, and Mr. I-\ H. Levien, S.M., directed that he be sent to the prison farm.