CRIME PUNISHED
PRISON FOR SUBVERSION BAD RECORD OF CHEMIST (By Tel^raph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Friday Charles Ronald Howell, secretary of the Christian Pacifist Society, found guilty of publishing a subversive statement and continuing to hold a prohibited meeting, was sentenced by Mr Justice Callan to twelve months’ hard labour and ten months' hard labour respectively, the sentences to be concurrent. William Weir, found not guilty of attempting to murder his wife by stabbing but guilty of assaulting his wife causing actualy bodily harm, was sentenced to six months’ hard labour. Sentence on Chemist Raymond Francis Woodley Grigg, aged 46, manufacturing chemist, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment with hard labour for unlawfully using an instrument with intent to procure a miscarriage. His Honour said prisoner had a record which indicated lawlessness. He had been convicted of breaking and entering, receiving, possessing a mould for making resemblances of current coinage, and nine years ago of conspiring to commit a crime by impersonating a police officer with a view to obtaining by a forged document a chemical formula. His Honour commended the intelligence and expedition with which the police acted on information received, and especially the officer who discovered a concealed article in Grigg’s room.
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Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21654, 14 February 1942, Page 9
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202CRIME PUNISHED Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21654, 14 February 1942, Page 9
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