SUPREME COURT
(Pee United Press Association.) CHRIST CHURCH, July 25. In: the Supremo Court to-day Frank Morris, for forcing a. withdrawal slip for £10 on the Christchurch Post Oliios Savings Bank, was ordered to be detained for two years' reformatory treatment. •Clarence Henry Becks, formerly a postal official at ICaiapoi, for the theft of three postal packets, was sentenced to 12 months' reformatory treatment. The probation officer's report oil the prisoner was good, but Mr Justice Herdman said it was the practico to treat offences against the Postal Department as very serious, as the public confidence in the post office must not bo disturbed.
William_ Downcs, for tho theft of a rug reocivc-d six months' • imprisonment-. ' Andrew Somb, alias Andrews, for issuing a valueless chequo, was sentenced to three y oars' imprisonment, and declared an habitual criminal.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17685, 24 July 1919, Page 5
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