PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME.
SENTENCES AT WELLINGTON
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 27.
Tho following prisoners, were sentenced in the Supreme Court by His Honour the Chief Justice:—Douglas Billigan Slater, theft of £494 from a Wellington firm, two years’ reformative detention; John Edmund Thomas O’Sullivan, forgery and uttering, fivo charges, 18 months hard labour to bo followed by two years’ reformative detention; Percy Clifford Smith, bigamy at Levin, 18 months’ hard labour, His Honour saying that the public interest ■would not be served unless a term of imprisonment were imposed ; George Robert Muncey, breaking entering and theft, three years’ hard labour with a warning that he would probably be declared an habitual criminal if came before the court again.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 151, 28 May 1929, Page 4
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