FIVE SECONDS’ IMPRISONMENT
(United Phess Association)
DUNEDIN, May 1. In the Supreme Court Gladys Batchelor was charged with counselling or procuring James Reynolds Hayne to commit a crime, also with conspiring, and further, with permitting. The Crown Prosecutor said the girl had refused to give evidence and in that refusal she was technically right, since by giving evidence against others she would be incriminating herself. It was in. order that her mouth inight be opened and that she might be made to speak as to what had happened that she was now prosecuted. The jury returned a verdict of guilty , on the third count only. The Judge sentenced the accused to V® s -?!* 1 " ■ sonment till ~ the rising of the Court, which rose five seconds afterwards,., * :
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 13 May 1920, Page 5
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126FIVE SECONDS’ IMPRISONMENT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 13 May 1920, Page 5
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