FORGED CHEQUE
ACCOUNTANT SENTENCED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “Your conduct was characterised by the greatest stupidity; in fact, it was almost too transparent to be fraud,” sair Mr Justice Quilliam, in the Supreme Court, Wellington yesterday, when sentencing Frank William Graham Herdman, accountant, aged 62, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery. He was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months, on condition that he stayed at the Salvation Army Home at Wallaceville. Herdman was represented by Mr A. R. Perry, who said that in view of the fact that his client was an accountant his action could be described only as ridiculous. It appeared that he had gone into a bank where he had previously held an account, and in the presence of an accountant had forged a cheque for £4OO. He received no pecuniary gain and could never have hoped to receive any.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1938, Page 2
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154FORGED CHEQUE Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1938, Page 2
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