POSED AS MARRIED MAN
SCHEME TO GET EMPLOYMENT. DETENTION FOR ONE YEAR. HAMILTON, Friday. A sentence of one year's detention for reformative purposes was imposed on Harold Geoffrey Kingston, aged 26, a single man, by Mr Justice Herdman in the Hamilton Supreme Court to-day for forgery. Mr J. D. Davys said that prisoner had tried for four months to obtain work last year. Finally he stated in writing that he was a married man, and on the strength of this he was given employment by the Public Works Department. As soon as he had obtained sufficient money to repay those who had helped him he left and had got work elsewhere. His Honour said prisoner had probably kept some married man out of work. He did not think Kingston deserved any consideration. He had got some weak woman to pass as his wife and he had forged a document. Prisoner had a list of six previous convictions and the police officer's report was not satisfactory.
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Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3327, 25 July 1931, Page 8
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