DUAL VOTING
MAN FOR SENTENCE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
NAPIER, This Day.
Edward William Wellman, watersider, charged with dual voting at the last General Election, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court this morning and was-committed to the Supreme Court, Napier, for sentence. Bail was allowed in ther sum of £ 100, with a surety of a similar amount.
The police evidence showed that the accused was intoxicated when he voted in the morning and when a car called at his house in the afternoon he went to another polling booth with his wife and voted. In a statement made to the police the accused denied knowledge of dual voting, saying that he had consumed a considerable amount of liquor in the morning.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1938, Page 11
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120DUAL VOTING Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1938, Page 11
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