PROBATION FOR FORGERY
MAN AND WOMAN SENTENCED Irrobation for 12 months was extended to Harold Henry James Mills, 38, who, with a young woman, May June Sutherland, appeared in the Supreme Court today for sentence on a charge of forgery. The young woman was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months. The Crown Prosecutor, Mr. Y. R. Meredith, said the offence did not have the degree of criminality generally associated with these cases. The man had earned the money, but had encouraged the young woman to sign his wife’s name as having received it, not with the object of stealing his own money, but to deflect it from his wife. The young woman was undoubtedly under the man’s influence, he added.
In passing sentence, Mr. Justice Smith commented that, although there were exceptional circumstances, the male accused had no business inducing the young woman to sign his wife’s name for the money, so that he could provide for her (Sutherland). Mills was ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution, £6 10s, during the term of probation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1006, 24 June 1930, Page 14
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