CRIMINAL CHARGES
(Per United Press Association.) PALMERSTON N„ May 12. K Meyers, with 11 previous convictions, sentenced to one yejirV, imprisonment, with ] ia rd labour, the .-barge being that iio was a rogue awl a vagabond. The court, in awarding the maximum sentence, said that, considering the prevalence of robberies in the Dominion and the recent epidemic in Palmereton, it was desirable 1o make an example. Accused's previous convictions included robbery and fake pretences. WELLINGTON, .May 12. Before Mr Justice Cooper this mowing several prisoners wore sentenced. Alexander M'Donald, for theft and forgery, received six months; Frederick William Jones, for several forgeries, got two years; William George Tustin, breach of tho bankruptcy law, six months, to date from November 18 last, prisoner to be treated as a. misdemeanant ot the first division; Ernest Wehreicdt, for theft, two years, 01IR1STCHUKCH, May 12. At the court to-day Clbarles Bryeuton, remanded from yesterday for the probation officer's report on a charge of stealing £14; from the telegraph csurep at Halswell, was admitted to six months' probation, oonditipflfljly on his refunding ifi? iftvte jnpnoy.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14212, 13 May 1908, Page 6
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180CRIMINAL CHARGES Otago Daily Times, Issue 14212, 13 May 1908, Page 6
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