ABSENCE OF SERIOUS CRIME
MARLBOROUGH CONGRATULATED LAND AGENT SENT TO PRISON. I’er Press Association. BLENHEIM, November 18. At the Supreme Court Mr Justice MacGregor congratulated the district oil the comparative absence of serious crime. Percy Stanley Prebble, land agent, charged with forging a deed of mortgage by adding thereto « false signature, that of Frederick Jackson, there being no such person, and causing it to be acted upon as genuine and altering the same was found guilty and sentenced to three years’ hard labour on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12608, 19 November 1926, Page 7
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91ABSENCE OF SERIOUS CRIME New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12608, 19 November 1926, Page 7
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