Prisoners Sentenced at Dunedin
PREVALENCE OF COUNTERFEITING. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Oct. 26. In tlio Supremo Court Mr. Justice Kennedy sentenced the following prisoners:—Robert Stanley MeCausland, aged 37, married, with seven children, for making counterfeit coins to two years’ and six months’ reformative detention. Tho Crown stated that there w r as a marked tendency towards this crime in Otago and a largo number of silver coins had been circulated, the police having over 100 in their possession ,they having been apparently mado from 28 different moulds.
William Palmer Eoley, aged 50, for breaking, entering and the theft of jewellery valued at £IOO, was sentenced to 15 months’ reformative detention; Ernest Robert William Pledger, for breaking, entering and perjury, to six months’ reformative detention; James Watson Mclvor, for the theft of a motor-cycle, to seven months’ hard labour; Ernest William Walter Haggett, for receiving stolen bicycles, to §s* paths’ " "Nt.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7298, 27 October 1933, Page 7
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