CONVICTED OF FORGING
A BAD PAIR Two brothers, Thomas and Robert Pryde, were before Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court, Hamilton, yesterday, charged with forging and uttering a cheque for £9 8s in the name of Joseph Rawlinson, licensee of the Royal Hotel, Hamilton East. The cheque was cashed by George ID. Osborne, hotelkeeper, Kihikihi. The men tried to cash the cheque at the Commercial Hotel, Hamilton, but failed and so went on to Kihikihi. The explanation made by Thomas Turnbull was that he had been gassed during the war, was subject to fits and was bordering on a state of insensibility when he signed the cheque. Both accused, who were serving a sentence of three years’ imprisonment for breaking and entering at Dunedin, were p**und guilty by the jury and sentenced' to a further 12 months’ in gaol with hard labour.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 138, 1 September 1927, Page 13
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