CRIME IN AUCKLAND

Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1921, Page 5

CRIME IN AUCKLAND

SUPREME COURT SENTENCES. By Telegraph —Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, William Llewellyan Trevessick was sentenced to reformative treatment not exceeding three years for obtaining goods valued at £32 from the Farmers’ Trading Company by falsely representing that he was the son of a shareholder. Helen Sinclair Macdonald, aged 17, who admitted two charges of counselling the forgery of her brother’s name on an Auckland Savings Bank account, was imprisoned for three months, with a recommendation that she should be placed in an industrial institution. John Robert Draffin, aged 23, said to have resisted for five months overtures by Macdonald to forge her brother’s signature, was put on probation for three years and ordered to restore the money drawn from the bank (£l4 16s) and pay the costs of the prosecution (£3 18s). Flora Ellen Waite was sentenced to a month’s hard labor for concealment of birth, the outcome of the discovery of the charred remains of an infant in the prison laundry. Matina Taare admitted obtaining £22 from the Native Land Court by impersonating her brother. She was put on probation for two years and ordered to pay £6, the costs of the prosecution, within three months.