FOR DAUGHTER’S SAKE
JUDGE COMMITS FELONY NEW YORK, May 12. A message from Raleigh, North Carolina, states that John H. Harwood, suspended Superior Court judge, was sentenced to one year in prison after he had pleaded guilty to mutilating State records in the case of his daughter. Lola Harwood, who was sentenced to serve two years upon a plea of guilty of embezzling Stale funds. Judge Harwood, greying slightly, sat calmly i i j . j- .... 1.. i.’.
I behind his attorneys. Tninumliatelv behind him were Miss Harwood and tho jurist’s wife. Miss Harwood, a former license clerk in the Department of Revenue, was indicted last Juno for the embezzlement of 4823 dolars (&185 at. par) in Stale funds. Her father wag indicted several weeks ago as an accessory after the fact for “manufacturing” evidence which the Slate declared would prove his daughter innocent. Judge Harwood is the first Superior Court judge in North Carolina, to I>o indicted and sentenced on a felony count. He was suspended at his own request when the indictment was returned.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 125, 30 May 1932, Page 2
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