YOUTHS STEAL CHEQUE
TAKEN FROM LETTER-BOX FORGED ENDORSEMENT Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. Two youthful labourers, Clarence Barnes and John Edward Loris Burton, pleaded guilty to the theft of a cheque for £(5 13s 5d from a letterbox at the Market Gardeners’ Company’s premises. Barnes forged the endorsement on the cheque and cashed it at an hotel, a bottle of whisky being purchased with part of the proceeds. Mr. E. Page, S.M., admitted Barnes to two years’ probation on condition that the stolen money was repaid at the rate of 10s a week. Burton, who had been in the Borstal Institute, was sentenced to 12 months’ reformative detention.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 351, 11 May 1928, Page 13
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107YOUTHS STEAL CHEQUE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 351, 11 May 1928, Page 13
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