SUPREME COURT.
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 12. At the Supreme Court, Wilfred Osborne, who had p-leaded guilty to obtaining £2OO from a widow by falsely representing he had £4OOO in a Wellington bank in connection with a lawsuit against the French Government regarding films, was sentenced to reformative treatment for two years. An order was made for the return to the widow of £lO7. Four fishermen—James Shirley, Alfred Williams and Henry Billyeald —who admitted theft from the wreck of the Wiltshire,, were placed on a year's probation and ordered to pay costs. Clarence Evans James, for theft from his employer at Cambridge, was granted probation for tw-o years, the goods taken, consisting of printing material, to be returned to the owner.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18531, 13 July 1922, Page 9
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122SUPREME COURT. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18531, 13 July 1922, Page 9
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