NEW PLYMOUTH SUPREME COURT
By Telegraph—Press Association. Now Plymouth, December 7. In the Supreme Court, .before His Honour the Chief Justice. (Sir Robert Stout), John Alexander Angus, a habitual criminal, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for escaping Irom custody while .on the journey from'. Auckland to New Plymouth. He told an extraordinary story in Court. .He -said ,tho railway carriage was full of drink. He had a drink to the knowledge, of the constable. He got drunk and left the .train at Inglewood.
Tho constable's'story was that Anpus jumped off the' train after leaving Inglewood.
The civil business was not concluded to-day.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2639, 9 December 1915, Page 9
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103NEW PLYMOUTH SUPREME COURT Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2639, 9 December 1915, Page 9
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