DUNEDIN SENTENCES
(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, October 26. Jn the Supreme Court Mr Justice Kennedy sentenced Robert Stanley MeAusiand, aged 37, a married man with seven children, found guilty of making counterfeit coins, to reformative detention for two years and six months. Tlie Crown stated that there was a marked tendency towards this crime in Otago and a large number of silver coins had been circulated. The police had more than 100 in their possession apparently made from 28 different moulds. William Palmer Foley, aged 50, for breaking and entering and" the iheft of jewellery valued at £IOO, was sentenced to 15 months' reformative detention. Ernest Robert William Pledger, for breaking, entering, and perjury, was sentenced to six months' reformative detention. James Watson Mclvor, for the theft of a motor-cycle, was sentenced to seven months' imprisonment with hard labour; and Ernest William Walter Ilaggett, for receiving stolen bicycles, to six- months' imprisonment with hard labour.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20997, 27 October 1933, Page 8
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