FORGERY.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1921, Page 4

FORGERY.

SOUOITOU SEXTIvNCKi)

j (.ISBOliiU 1 :. September ■>. I In pas.-.ing m'lKmiw upon -loliii i Harold Kant', a (laborin' solicitor, his I Honour. Mr Justice lied. said thill | ill,. 11,■ is-.n.• r had barn found guilty ol loro nr v hv a jury of his lellow citizen'. | |c’'(lns Honour) thought. that in. view ,)| the evideni a. the verdict was jusliii‘,.,l |- t 1,0,1 1,,ail established that tin" I pri.'Oiter had obtained front a native ! „ir| a promise of an a mount of £IIH) i’ll respect ~f a land transaction to which | lie had no shadow of right and Unit to secure the fulfilment of this promise/, lie had altered lit,, amount of a. receipt sigma) by the woman from I'lOO to JjtW). v.ilii intent to deciite the 1 l.and Uoai (I. Tlte jury. lie said, believed and his Honour believed, that ' I, ol' tlie two receipts stoned by ■ t'he pii I v.tis for £IOO. and that the ; prisoner had. to secure the payment 1 ~f the amount promised *<> him j altered one of them. Whether it had j | been done with the knowlcdg* or connivance of tlie interpreter, l-.spie only ; the prisoner and Ksph; knew. Jf Ksptc had had any coitneclion with it. mid ' had bad te. perjure himself to save tin' I, prisoner and swear to having witnessed , tlie signature to a receipt which lie had ’ 1 not seen signed, his license as an interpreter had been iatt.ttcellotl very pro- ! nerly and rightly SO. It should ha

i widely known tin;l the ei'it alienin' ! (he receipt must result in the striking ! of the prisoner off the rolls, and tli u the witness Espie would lose his oerti- : f, ( . n te. To have aero|.ted the promise i of the money in the first phiee must b" | resiriled as very serious nrefe*-ioii:d | mi'Coudui-l. and ill have used 11 k■ rcI reiot with inlrnt to deceive t!" hand I !!i)a;d could not he reyarded in any

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