IN THE COURTS.
THEFT AS A SERVANT. CBv Telegraph.—Press -Association.) (By IeIeS w | T . LINGT&N j uly 29. 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. Aftei hearing counsel. His Honour said the case was not one in which any court ■could grant nrobation. Punishment after all. was something more than mere punishment for an individual offender. The deterrent effect had to be -considered. The sentence was twelve •months’ reformative.
A SERIOUS CHARGE. (Bv Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 29. A widow named Adeline Pyle was .arrested on the charge that on June 27 she unlawfully used an instrument on Amelia Gertrude Pipe, thereby causing the death of the said Amelia Pipe. The accused appeared before Mr. Hunt. S.M., and was remanded till August 5. bail being allowed in £SOO. Miss Pipe was 23 years of age and had been., housekeeping for her father at Wailii. She was admitted to the hospital there on June 18. and died last Friday morning.
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Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17649, 29 July 1929, Page 5
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183IN THE COURTS. Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17649, 29 July 1929, Page 5
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