PRISONERS SENTENCED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17568, 19 June 1925, Page 11

PRISONERS SENTENCED.

Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, June 10. Prisoners sentenced at Ihe Supreme CVjurt to-day included C lire Argylc Wood, who pleaded guilty to three charges of forgery. He was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to lie cumulative. Prisoner has already been sentenced for a similar offence in the north. lie was described as an expert in hand-writing. Mr Justice Sim said that it was anr>i her illustration of the way such offences were being, committed hr reason of trades people cashing big cheques for absolute strangers. He could not. sympathise with. them. John Milne, tor breaking, entering and theft, for sentenced, to three years’ detention in the IJoT.stal Institution, and Colin Frederick M" Donald, Rohert M-Donald M’Beath, Frank Abbott M’Donald and William Russel Lamb, "ii charges of breaking, entering and theft, wero admitted to. three years’ probation. — —;