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UTTERERS SENTENCED, [ Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, Aug;. 11. Maurice Goodman, aged 33, Percy Short, aged 52, and Percy John McKenzie Short, aged 20, found guilty on their retrial on four charges of uttering forged bank notes on April 24, were sentenced to-day by Mr Justice Smith. Mr Meredith (Crown Prosecutor) described the offences as a determined raid on the public of considerable magnitude. At the same time, as the trail of forged notes was laid from Auckland to Hamilton, many similar notes were issued in Wellington.
The Judge said that he had no doubt despite prisoner’s protestations of innocence, they had uttered the notes. The man who had caused their manufacture had not been caught. Goodman and Short, senior, were sentenced to one year’s hard labour, to be followed by two years’ reformative detention. Short, junr., was sentenced to two years at the Borstal.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 189, 12 August 1931, Page 8
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