WEST HAM SCANDALS.
ACCUSED CONVICTED. United Press Association — By JDiectric '"'- $elegraph.— Copyright. LONDON, May 18. The trial of the guardians of West Ham Workhouse, on charges- of con* spiracy, has concluded. All the accused were convicted, except Tarrant, who was discharged. Crump and Lewis Hjll were each sentonced to two years' hard labour, and both were permanently disqualified from holding, office, and declared incapable for voting for a period of seven year 3. Hodgkin was sentenced to eighteen months, Anderson and Skinner to fifteen .months, Watts and Riches to nine months, and Frank Hill and Baird.to six- months, &tt with civic* disqualified tion. , v , (The guardians convicted did several things of a criminal nature with the object of * 'feathering their ow^i nests.")*
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13474, 20 May 1907, Page 5
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122WEST HAM SCANDALS. Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13474, 20 May 1907, Page 5
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