PRISONERS SENTENCED AT DUNEDIN
(PA.) Dunedin. Feb. 19. Eric Rowley Jory and John Gerard Farmer, who appeared in uniform, and Donald Stewart McLean, hospital porter, who pleaded guilty to chargea of forgery and false pretences by having obtained from the Army Department money by using fictitious signatures on acquittance rolls, appeared before Mr. Justice Kennedy for sentence. Farmer and Jory were sentenced to nine months’ reformative treatment, while McLean was sentenced to six months' reformative. Passing sentence Mr. Justice Kennedy said Farmer had been committing his dishonest acts over a long period and the false signatures totalled 150. For over two years there had been continued dishonesty by Jory. McLean was not In the same position of trust.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 42, 20 February 1943, Page 5
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