CRIMINAL TRIALS
CRIMINAL TRIALS. PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND. May 24. In the Supreme Court, Walter Francis Darby, a bankrupt merchant, whose case was recently before the Appeal Court, come up for sentence on seven charges of breach of the Bankruptcy Act. Air Justice Chapman said there was no evidence of raudulent intent, rather of recklessness, perhaps carelessness. Taking into consideration what accused had already suffered ho imposed only a nominal penalty of two months’ hard _ labour, which would date from conviction, and therefore would have been already served. Thomas McDonald, clerk in the Bank of Now’ Zealand, charged with theft mid falsuying a ledger, was sentenced to eighteen months’ hard labour. Frederick Thomas Martyn, for theft from vessels, was sentenced to two rears’ imprisonment on each of two charges and declared an habitual criminal.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7449, 25 May 1911, Page 6
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