SUPREME COURT.
INVERCARGILL, June I
At the Supreme Court this afternoon, John Archibald Mackay was charged with omitting to make an entry in his cashbook of money received by him on behalf of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, whose Bluff branch he managed. He was also charged on four other counts with forging names on the wares sheet. After three hours’ retirement, the jury found a verdict of not guilty on the first count, but found accused guilty of forgery with a strong reoommendatlou to mercy owing to his youth, small wages, and position of responsibility. |»jij{*IINVI?RCAKGIBB, June 2. At the Supreme Court to-day John Archibald Mackay, clerk in the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, Bluff, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for forging a name on the wages book with intent to defraud the company. James Wilson, builder, was sentenced to one mouth’s imprisonment for failing to keep proper books of account, prisoner to be treated as a firstclass misdemeanant.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 848, 4 June 1910, Page 3
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164SUPREME COURT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 848, 4 June 1910, Page 3
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