NEW PLYMOUTH SITTINGS.
Per. Press Association,
NEW .PLYMOUTH, Feb. 6. At the Supreme (Jourt to-day. Frank ■Ratbenbury, a settler in the Waitaa-a, disk-ict pleaded not guilty to breaking and entering Hatrick and Co.'s warehouse at Waitara and stealing 23 cases of whisky. The. jury,- after throe hours' deliberation, returned a verdict of not guilty. iMr Justice Edwards remarked that the verdict was the jury's, not his, adding that the prisoner was a very lucky man.
Dudrick Wohlert, a German, who had pleaded guilty to the same charge, was brought up for sentence. Mr. Justice Edwards said it would be an outrage on justice to punish Wohlert when the main culprit escaped. He was admitted to probation for two years.
Benjamin Graham Diver, labourer, for indecent assault on a young female was sentenced to three years' hard labour and three years' reformative treatment.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 7 February 1917, Page 5
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142NEW PLYMOUTH SITTINGS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 7 February 1917, Page 5
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