VALUELESS CHEQUES.
A CHEAT AND PERJURER. (Per Press Association). INVERCARGILL, last night. At the Supreme Court to-day the Chief Justice sentenced George Carry ie to six monms’ imprisonment for false pretences, on two charges, one of laving procured goods and the other of having procured a horse by tendering cheques when he had insufficient funds in the Bank to meet them. This was in 1895, and the prosecution said that he had not seen accused again till recently. His Honor said that if prisoner had not gone into the box and sworn falsely, and charged others with per'cry, he would have admitted him to (robation, blit he could not under the circumstances extend that leniency. He had never given probation to a person who had committed perjury.
Prisoner said he had intended to prosecute Johnston for committing perjury in the lower Court. His Honor replied that lie would have to give his evidence better than lie had in his own case, or he would have no chance of succeeding. The sitting of the Court then closed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 358, 7 March 1902, Page 2
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