SUPREME COURT AT WELLINGTON
TWO MEN SENTENCED (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 19. Walter Fraser Sherriffs Harness, aged 41 years, a blacksmith, was sentenced by Mr Justice Blair to 18 months’ hard labour on each of five charges of breaking, entering and theft, three charges of theft and one of uttering, all to be concurrent, and was declared an habitual criminal. Arthur Augustus Wilson, aged 41 years, a fisherman, was sentenced to two years’ hard labour on each of four charges of unlawful carnal knowledge, to which he pleaded guilty at Blenheim. The terms are to be concurrent.
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Southland Times, Issue 24004, 20 December 1939, Page 5
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