JURYMEN GAOLED.
ACQUITTAL FOLLOWS WEEK-END SPREE (By Telegraph-Press fi.ssn,--Copyright) Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m. CHICAGO, April 25. Judge Epstein in the Criminal Court held the entire jury guilty of contempt He sentenced eleven to gaol and fined the tweLt!) fifty <!<;il;n>,. The jury acquitted an ex-eourt clerk on a charge of embezzlement nfter a week-end deliberation which they spent tmirin.'r the tdverns, drinking beor and entertaining saloon hostesses. Five of' the jurors were sentenced to five days each due to drinking and dancing, six to three days for drinking only, while the twelfth just went a!ong. The baliff was sentenced to six months - ' gaol,
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 April 1937, Page 3
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