FALSE STATEMENTS.
MADE BY MAN AND WOMAN. JUDGE'S COMMENTS. (By Telegraph.—Press Associating AUCKLAND, July 20 "If cases like this become common, probation cannot be granted," said Mr Justice Smith, when a woman and a man appeared for-sen-tence for fraudulently declaring they had posted letters. The woman, Ivy Elizabeth Matheson, had borrowed from a moneylender and when he threatened to put a bailiff in - she said she had posted his money. Percy Morrish, a young man of unblemished character, made a false statement that he had posted a money to a bookmaker. The Judge granted a year's probation and ordered payment of the costs of prosecution.
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Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 18245, 20 July 1931, Page 2
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105FALSE STATEMENTS. Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 18245, 20 July 1931, Page 2
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