PRISONERS SENTENCED
4 By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, December 17. At the Supreme Court to-day, Dorothy Mainell, alias Meyrick, a well-dressed woman, admitted two charges of forgery. Mr. Justice Frazer said that it was not a case in which lie should send the prisoner to gaol, but in the interests of her baby she should stay another two months at the Salvation Army Maternity Home, and afterwards go to Mt. Magdala Home in Christchurch for two years. She is to come up for sentence if called upon within the next two years. Donald MacfarUine Fraser, for forging a testinmonial to obtain employment as a chemist, was ordered to pay the cost of the prosecution without further penalty. • James Ravmond Smith, lor making a false declaration at Dargaville under the Marriage Act, and Elsie Muldren Smith, who pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting him, were admitted to probation for one ye< Lyle Mary Baker, aged 19, for permitting the use of an instrument for an illegal purpose, was admitted to probation for two years. Olaf Christian Karlson was sentenced to twelve months’ hard labour for breaking and entering. William Cecil Rhodes was sentenced to twelve months’ hard labour for stealing a Edward Kelly was admitted to two years’ probation for supplying a noxious thing.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 73, 19 December 1928, Page 17
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