"CLEVEREST FORGER."
FIVE; YEARS FOR A CAMBKIDGE GRADUATE. At the Old Bail6y on Wednesday Gerald Kennaway, otherwise Kennedy, aged thirty-nine, described as of no occupation, and Albert Henry Longhurst, aged thirty-eight, a licensed victualler, who were convicted at the last sessions of forging and 'uttering a cheque, were brought up for sentence. Detective-Inspector Divall said that Kennaway had several convictions against him, one of seven years' penal servitude for forgery. He was well connected and was a graduate of Cambridge University. Since he was released from penal servitude in 1907 he had had every assistance from his relatives, and had been Etarted in business as a bee farmer at Bolney, near Hayward's Heath. For a time he gained an honest living, but even thenwas in communication with dangerous criminals, both in and out of prison. From reliable information the' witness learned that Kennaway was undoubtedly, the cleverest forger in t.he country. The Common Sergeant Kennaway to five years, and Longhurst to three years' penal servitude.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10153, 25 November 1910, Page 6
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165"CLEVEREST FORGER." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10153, 25 November 1910, Page 6
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