“BEATING” A BANK
PRISONER OPERATES ON ANOTHER’S HARD EARNINGS.
(Wellington Times)
Leslie George Fraser was sentenced in tho Supreme Court on Friday on a charge of his having defrauded the Post Office Savings Bank of £3O. The accused had nothing to say prior to the passing of sentence, but his father said a few words on his behalf. “I don’t think he is altogether a bad sort of a boy,” the father said, "and I ask your Honour to take into consideration his age.” His Honour; How old is he?
The father: Nineteen. His Honour: Twenty this month
The father: J can only ask you to extend whatever leniency is possible. His Honour: Yes, but it is a very bad offence—two offences ... I will be as lenient as I can.
Addressing the prsioner His Honour said: “Prisoner at the bar, you have been guilty of two crimes—very contemptible ermes. 'i on found a Rost Office Savings Bank book in the street —that is your own story. You went- to the Post Office and filled in a slip for £3O. You got the money. You committed forgery and false pretences. You spent the whole of the money about tho town. That was on January 21st. Three days later you repeated the performance. You forged another withdrawal order and attempted to cash it. Thirty pounds you squandered in three days and you attciiiptsd to get £SO mole of the hard-earned money of this man. . . I shall send you to the care of tlie Prisons Board, as I generally do with •young offenders, and they will let you out as soon as they think fit.” Fraser was sentenced to two years’ reformative treatment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1920, Page 4
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280“BEATING” A BANK Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1920, Page 4
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