SUPREME COURT
CHRISTCHURCII SENTENCES
(United Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day
William Francis Halliburton, commission agent, pleaded .guilty in the Supreme Court to charges of receiving various sums totalling £650 at Ashhurton and fraudulently omitting to account for them. Sentence was postponed, counsel staling that prisoner had made a muddle of things. Krnest Le Compte, for an indecent act, was sentenced. to three, years' gaol; lloy Walter Walls, n .postal officer, Ihefi of a. postal packc, admitted to probation for two years: Frederick Richardson James, attempted rape, five years' gaol, the Judge slating that prisoner was lucky to escape a flogging. Gif'fen Murphy, taxi-driver, was found guilty of negligently driving n motor car and causing the death of F. J. Holland, a milkman, on 23rd September. The Judge said the increased danger to traffic on streets-niade it. necessary for drivers of cars lo exercise, a high standard of care. Sentence was deferred. .
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 18 November 1926, Page 5
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151SUPREME COURT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 18 November 1926, Page 5
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