A WOMAN SENTENCED
UNFORTUNATE CAREER.
MURDER CASE RECALLED
Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, February 19. (Received Feb, 19, at 11.35 p.m.) Grace Palmer has been sentenced.. t*> six months' imprisonment on a charge of having insufficient means of support. _ The case recalls a murder 20 years ago of Mr Taylor, a settler on the Great Barrier Island, for which two men named Caffrey and Penn were convicted. They and Grace Palmer crossed to Port Macquarie in a small boat, and the men were arrested and executed. Palmer, who was not charged with participation in the crime, acted as the chief witness. According to the police evidence she has been in trouble ever since.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16003, 20 February 1914, Page 5
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113A WOMAN SENTENCED Otago Daily Times, Issue 16003, 20 February 1914, Page 5
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