FOUR YEARS AT BORSTAL
YOUNG MAN WHO SIGNED CHEQUES
“UNENVIABLE RECORD”
Four years in the Borstal Institute was the penalty imposed by Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme 1 Court this morning on Bartholo-
mew Mcllroy, aged 21, who had pleaded guilty in the Police Court to making false documents and so obtaining money from the Post Office Savings Bank.
I Prisoner, who was not represented, i by counsel, had nothing to say.
! “I am very sorry to say,” remarked, his Honour in passing sentence, • that you have an unenviable record. You have had probation on one occasion and have also served a short period «*£ reformative detention. Now you are guilty of a long series of forgery acsiuns iu!i L rm sc l ns Suiaioaui sat it-'U You have robbed a bank. All I can do ! is to give you a chance to learn habits of industry. You will be .st-nt to the Borstal for lour .vars.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 614, 16 March 1929, Page 1
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