FIFTEEN MONTHS’ GAOL FOR BIGAMY
SUPREME COURT SENTENCES. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. The 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, five charges, 18 months hard labour to be 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 bo 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 bo declared an habitual criminal if he came before the court again.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6920, 28 May 1929, Page 6
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122FIFTEEN MONTHS’ GAOL FOR BIGAMY Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6920, 28 May 1929, Page 6
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