GUILTY OF PERJURY

Southland Times, Issue 21855, 4 November 1932, Page 6

GUILTY OF PERJURY

SENTENCE OF THREE YEARS’ HARD LABOUR. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, November 3. A sentence of three years’ hard labour was passed by Mr Justice Herdman to-day on Ernest Cheadle, who had been found guilty of perjury. The Judge said it was necessary to impose a salutary sentence. He did not propose to waste time by uttering platitudes about keeping the wells of justice pure, for everyone knew that unless witnesses were honest, justice could not be done. The prisoner had given evidence in an action for damages and declared he saw the accident, whereas he was not there at all. He had played a part in conspiring to defraud an insurance company and mislead a jury. His Honour said he hoped the result of these proceedings would make it plain to others who might be inclined to do as prisoner had done that misleading a Court of Justice was followed by serious consequences.