FALSE PRETENCES.
THREE YEARS’ HARD LABOR. SENTENCE ON KNUTSEN. Before His Honor Mr. Justice Hosking, in the Supreme Court New Plymouth yesterday the prisoner. Thomas Knutsen, who had been convicted the previous day of false pretences at Patea, by issuing a valueless cheque to a c'hinaman, appeared for sentence. Asked by His Honor if he had anything to say, Knutsen proceeded to review in detail his list of previous convictions, denying that some of them were against him. He contended that the first sentence on the list, occurred two months before he arrived in New Zealand, and he also repudiated a number of others, contending the police had made a mistake in his record.
His Honor said there would be some trouble to prove these. He would give prisoner the extreme sentence allowed, namely three years hard labor. All prisoners were under the control of the Prisons Board and Knutsen could make representations to them if he desired. His record, even as admitted, was bad enough. Prisoners who came out of gaol, only to commit another offence were a public nuisance.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1921, Page 8
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181FALSE PRETENCES. Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1921, Page 8
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