FRAUDULENT TELEGRAM.
-AN'OTHBI,' CASK l-'ol! IMIUHATION. Kenneth Douglas Melville (.'aiders, who ;h-id previously pleaded guilty to a charge ci sending a 'telegram, signed with another pei-f-on's name, for the purpose, of -obtaining moncv. was brought lonn-rd fcr sentence. Mr. A. L. Hodman appeared for aceu.-i-d.- ' Hi» Honour staled that he had cavefully considered the prisoner's can- sin™ Monday, and he hud had sent to him, through counsel, several communications which wni' all favourable as-to prisoner > previous character. His Honour had therefore decided that he would not sand him to prison on this occasion, but would order him to come up for sentence when called on. After explaining to accused the exact meaning «l such a sentence, his Honour said that he had had some difficulty in dealing with him in this wnv because (here was a good deal of deliberation on accused's part before he sent the telegram. His Honour further said that accused would bo expected to pay .£."> towards tho costs. !of tho .prosecution. He warned him to behave himself in fulum
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1208, 17 August 1911, Page 3
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173FRAUDULENT TELEGRAM. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1208, 17 August 1911, Page 3
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