PRISONERS SENTENCED
WELLINGTON DECISIONS. [per press association.] WELLINGTON, June 18. The following; prisoners were sentenced to-day by Chief Justice Myers: George Hill, breaking, entering and theft at Woodville, twelve months’ imprisonment. Patrick O’Leary, 28, and Walter Petherack, 21, breaking, entering, and theft, at Carterton, each six mouths’ imprisonment, both being previous offenders. James Ruskin Robertson, 48, theft at Palmerston North, two years’ imprisonment on each of two charges, concurrent; also concurrent with the sentence at present being served. For theft, another offender was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon. His Honor remarked that the offences had been committed under great stress, i.e., to pay medical expenses for his wife, who during the past four and a-half years has undergone six or seven, serious operations. “The condition of the wife’s health must have been a sort of nightmare to him,” said His Honor, “and was sufficient almost to drive him into insanity.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 June 1930, Page 2
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