SUPREME COURT.
SENTENCES AT AUCKLAND. Auckland, Nov. 17. In the Supreme Court William Parrel ly. a young man who absconded and was brought back from the Argentine, was charged witji theft of £530 when manager of farm at Te Kuiti, the peculation extending over eighteen months. Counsel stated that accused spent £3BO of his own and his wife’s money over serious illnesses of his wife and children. Mr. Justice Stringer said the individual circumstances and aspects of the case wore a matter for the Prisons Board. He could only take cognisance of the facts. That was, in a position of trust he had violated that trust and had endeavoured to avoid detection by forging vouchers of payment for money. He sentenced accused to two years 1 * imprisonment. Victor Henry Simmonds (39) convicted of indecent and common assault, with a bad record, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 286, 19 November 1923, Page 7
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