TRIAL AND SENTENCE
Invercargill Supreme Court By Telegraph—Press Association. Invercargill, August 15. At. the Supreme Court Thomas Young Penman, aged 26, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Kennedy to eighteen mouths’ reformative detention for stealing £2ll from the Southland County Council, by whom he was employed as a clerk. Counsel stated that the money had not gone for vicious purposes. The accused had been paying off flax shares, and to keep up the payments had borrowed from a moneylender, getting into difficulties. Restitution had been made. Donald Eon Stark, aged twenty-nine, on a charge of carnal knowledge of a girl under sixteen, was sentenced to eight months’ reformative detention. Sydney Garfield Nicholas Northcoat, aged twenty, on a charge of Incest, was sentenced to two and.a half years’ hard labour.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 275, 16 August 1932, Page 11
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128TRIAL AND SENTENCE Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 275, 16 August 1932, Page 11
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