BOROUGH FUNDS STOLEN.
- ■ - - —— Hfc —' EX-TOWN CLERK SENTENCED. JUDGE'S CAUSTIC COMMENT. [by telegraph.—press association.] INVERCARGILL, Thursday. "If a thief desires to obtain probation lie should approach the Court in a proper spirit of penitence," said Mr. Justice Sim, in sentencing John F, Walsh, a former town clerk of Mataura, to three years' reformative treatment for theft of borough ■funds. ' "He has not done that-," continued His Honor. "He has had the impudence to deny his guilt, and has gono into the box and committed perjury in support of his defence, and has' also made a most; unfounded suggestion against a young lady employed in his office. If the accused had shown a proper spirit and had pleaded guilty, I would have been glad to consider the recommendation of the probation officer, but, in the circumstances, the prisoner, by his ill-advised course in defending the case, has placed himself beyond consideration in connection with probation."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19417, 27 August 1926, Page 15
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153BOROUGH FUNDS STOLEN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19417, 27 August 1926, Page 15
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