HAMILTON COURT.
SENTENCE FOR THEFT. Lilt TELEGRAPH.— CORRESPONDENT.] Hamilton, Monday. At the Magistrate's Court to-day Lilian Margaret Castleton applied for a maintenance order against her husband, William Arthur Castleton. Defendant agreed to pay 5s a week, with £1 Is costs.' ' ' A man named Frank Wesley, 'on, the plea of poverty, in February last obtained a tent and othor articles • from a settler to enable him to go into a. draining contract. He failed 'to return them, but sold them to the manager for whom/ he was working for 10s, ana nothing was heard of him until ho was arrested at Otorohanga a few days ago. The magistrate, in sentencing Wesley to 14 days' imprisonment, said the theft was a mean and contemptible one, such as was likely to dry the springs of charity.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15950, 22 June 1915, Page 5
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