THIEVES SENTENCED
WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. Prisoners sentenced by the Chief Justice at Welling ton were: Douglas Milligan Slater, for the theft of £494 from a Wellington firm, two years’ reformative detention. John Edmund Thomas O’Sullivan, for forgery and uttering, five charges, is months’ hard labour to be followed by two years’ reformative detention. Percy Clifford Smith. bigamy at Levin, 18 months’ hard labour, his Honour saying the public interest would not be served unless a term of imprisonment were imposed. George Robert Munccy. breaking and entering and theft, three years’ hard labour with the warning that he would be declared an habitual criminal if he came before the court again.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 673, 27 May 1929, Page 14
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