PRISONERS SENTENCED
FIVE YEARS FOR FOUR SHOTS. [Pick. United Press Association.} WELLINGTON, November 10. lit the Supreme Court this morning Maurice Tangney.for attempting to obtain £SOO by false pretences, was sentenced to eighteen montlis’ reformative detention. Prisoner asked to be discharged, undertaking to leave New Zealand, where he could never do any good in view of the police attitude. , Benjamin .Tones, who figured in tme Petone shooting sensation of August last was sentenced to five years, with hard labor. Prisoner fired four shots at two constables who were executing a distress warrant.
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Evening Star, Issue 18121, 10 November 1922, Page 6
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92PRISONERS SENTENCED Evening Star, Issue 18121, 10 November 1922, Page 6
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