A SOLICITORS FORGERY
TO MEMORANDUM OF MORTGAGE.
Auckland, Last Night,
John Henry Victor Mansil, forlncrly a solicitor in Auckland, who is undergoing a term of reformative detention, pleaded guilty at the Police Court to-day to forging a memorandum or mortgage for £6OO. In a statement Mansil said ho forged the name of Mary Foreman to the document. He subsequently called to his room one of his clerks in whose presence he subscribed his own name only. He then instructed the clerk to witness both his signature and the signature purporting to be that of Mary Foreman. The net proceeds of a sub-mort-gage of £SOO were used to make up deficiencies in his trust account, and the principal sum of £6OO was shown in his defalcations.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3807, 19 June 1928, Page 2
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125A SOLICITORS FORGERY Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3807, 19 June 1928, Page 2
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