SUPREME COURT.
SEXTEXCES AT CTTIvfST- . CHURCH. Christchurch, July 23. At the Supreme Court to-clay, Frank Morris, for forging’ a withdrawal slip for £lO on the Christchurch Post Office Savings Bank, was ordered to be detained for two years' reformative treatment. Clarence Henry Bicks, formerly a postal officer at Kaiapoi, for the theft of three postal packets, was sentenced to twelve months’ reformative treatment. The probation oflicer’s report on the prisoner was good, hut Mr Justice Herdman said it was a practice to treat offences against the Postal Department as very serious, as public confidence in the post office must not be disturbed. William Downes, for the theft of a rug, received six months’ jail. Andrew Semb, alias Andrews, for issuing valueless cheques, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and declared an habitual criminal.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2006, 24 July 1919, Page 3
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133SUPREME COURT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2006, 24 July 1919, Page 3
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