AUCKLAND CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 19. At tho criminal sessions of the Supreme Court tojday Wera Simons, a young Maori, pleaded not guilty to. a charge of making a false declaration to the Registrar of Marriages, at Auckland, for,the purpose of procuring a marriage certificate. ' It was stated that the girl whom' accused married was' a white girl, and accused knew quite well that she was only 20 years old when he declared that she was 21. The jury returned a verdiet of guilty, with a recommendation to mercy, stating that they did not consider that ae- | cused realised the seriousness of what l.e was doing. Accused was fined £lO. Olaf Robert Thorkalson, for breaking a plate-glass window of a draper's shop in Queen Street,' was sentenced to three months' imprisonment..
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1642, 20 May 1919, Page 6
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133AUCKLAND CRIMINAL SESSIONS. Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1642, 20 May 1919, Page 6
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