THEFT OF £I6OO.
GILMOUR GETS THREE YEARS. (press association teleohau.) INVERCARGILL, November 16. Ernest Mabin Gilmour was found guilty on two charges of forgery and four charges of stealing money totalling £I6OO belonging to the estate of the late Mrs Emily Clark. Mr Justice Sim, summing up, said it was clear that • accused had drawn moneys from the Post Office under power of attorney and used them for himself. The jury ought to convict, unless it believed accused's story that Mrs Clark had given him the moneys as a gift. In passing sentence, Mr Justice Sim said . that Gilmour used his power of attorney to carry out wholesale thefts, and it was impossible to consider probation. -Be would! be sentenced to three years' hard labour for- forgery and two years' hard labour on each of the other charges, the sentences to be concurrent.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19160, 17 November 1927, Page 14
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143THEFT OF £1600. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19160, 17 November 1927, Page 14
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