TWELVE MONTHS
GOVERNMENT CLERK sentenced. WELLINGTON, This - Day. The theft as a servant of £414 brought Thomas George Gillespie (49) a clerk in the Lands Department for over 29 years, before* The Chief Justice in the Supreme Court for sentence ■ After hearing counsel His Honour said the case was not one in which any court could grant probation. Punishment after all was something more than mere punishment for the individual offender. The deterrent effecthad to he considered and. accused was sentenced to twelve months reformat! ve detention.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 71, 29 July 1929, Page 8
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87TWELVE MONTHS Stratford Evening Post, Issue 71, 29 July 1929, Page 8
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