COLLAPSE IN DOCK.

Wairarapa Age, 7 November 1930, Page 5

COLLAPSE IN DOCK.

SENTENCE OF PIMENTAL nr.Tßß.Rr.ri A DRAMATIC SCENE. W ELLINGTON, November 6. While standing in the dock of the Supreme Court this morning awaiting sentence by his Honour Mr. Justice Ctstler, Morton Parker Pimental, found guilty yesterday afternoon on two charges of false pretences, collapsed and fell 'down in the dock. His Honour deferred sentence until to-morrow morning at 10 o’clock. The charges arose out of Pimental's representations in respect of Mecca oil, and the jury, after a retirement of two hours forty-five minutes, returned late yesterday afternoon with a verdict of guilty on both charges with a strong recommendatien ts mercy eg the ground that the accused might have ma’de good if he had been allowed to carry on.

Hia Honour was reading some papers that had been handed up to him bv Mr. Stevenson on the accused’s behalf, and a sound could be tai,-with a - sigh; lurched forward over the HoMr Tn a” state of eoHansc and then fol] bsclrwnrds. The warmer v.’ho wvas~ spin’fj ynW’"l*jm”'os*V-e' F: w — ' end tic unaouc, and h,.- face pule, was BtwySj hie feci. Hi: fell jhgqin. however, and his Honour said that as the prisoner was unwell, he would defer sentence until tomorrow morning: Pifilentai was llif-ii toiiiiivihi frani the dock By two warders.—(P.A.)