MALING’S PUNISHMENT
PRISON AND DIVORCE.
(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)
SYDNEY, December 5.
Silas Maling suffered a double blow to-day. He was divorced, and his appeal at the Quarter Sessions against conviction of bribery, arising out of the Babcock-Wilcox, Council Contract, was dismissed.
Maling’s counsel asked Judge Curlewis to bind Maling over instead of sending him to prison for six months, as required by the Magistrate in the Lower Court.
Judge Curlewis said it was a case more for an increase, because of the depths of corruption showfi. in this case.
The Judge ordered the sentence to stand.
Maling has been removed to Long Bay Prison. In the Divorce Court, Olive Maling' obtained a decree nisi, returnable in six months, dissolving her marriage with Silas Maling, on the ground Of his misconduct with Mrs. Hillas Pittock.
Maling did not defend the suit, and costs were given against him.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1928, Page 5
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