SEVEN YEARS FOR ARSON.
(PRESS ASSOCIATION' TELEGBAM.) WELLINGTON, November 2. When James Perry was seutenced to five years' imprisonment in September for breaking and entering lie had declined in the Lower Court to plead guilty to attempted arson at Kilbirnie, but afterwards ho did so though, ho said, he had no recollection of having attempted to set fire to one of the houses he had entered. Ho came up for sentence in tho Supreme Court today.
Mr Justice Macgrc£or said that the offenco was a very serious one. It was his plain duty to impose a substantial sentence. He ordered seven years' imprisonment, to be concurrent with prisoner's present term.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19148, 3 November 1927, Page 5
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110SEVEN YEARS FOR ARSON. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19148, 3 November 1927, Page 5
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