A CAREER OF CRIME.
12 MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Palmerston North, this day.
At the Supreme Court, Joseph Harvey Cornish was found guilty on three of six charges of obtaining money by false pretences in regard to an invention controlling the rise and fall of the swell of the sea for mechanical purposes, and was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment. Mr Justice Salmond said the offences were not isolated ones, but episodes in a career of crime.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1857, 4 September 1923, Page 5
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