MAGISTRATE’S COURT.
Charged with a serious offence, a pensioner, aged 71, entered a plea of guilty when he appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North yesterday. Detective-Sergeant Meildejohn stated that inquiries showed that accused had been committing the offence for some years, and had been warned before, but no action Was taken then because he was a cripple and a pensioner. Mr A. M. Ongley, who appeared for accused, said that the latter had been crippled with rheumatism for twenty years. Commenting that if accused did not voluntarily enter an institution he would have to be placed under some form of restraint such as reformative detention, the Magistrate adjourned the case until Monday, accused’s name being suppressed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 10, 9 December 1937, Page 16
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124MAGISTRATE’S COURT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 10, 9 December 1937, Page 16
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