GUILTY OF THEFT
BIX MONTHS' GAOL. (Per Press Association.—Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A sentence of six months’ imprisonment with hard labour was imposed by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, in the Supreme Court yesterday, on Ernest John McDonald, aged 34, a clerk, who was found guilty of theft of £l3O, the funds of the Way* side Club, an institution supported by subscriptions, for providing food and amenities for the unemployed. McDonald was the secretary of the club. He said he had not received a respectable week’s salary for two and a half years. The money had been raised by his own efforts. He had a wife and four children to support. The Chief Justice, in passing sentence, said he was giving full effect to the jury's recommendation' to leniency.
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Northern Advocate, 5 November 1932, Page 9
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