SUPREME COURT
AUCKLAND SESSION BIGAMIST SENTENCED [Pep. United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, February 27. Henry Osman, aged forty-five, a laborer," was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment for bigamy. Ho married first in 191-4 and contracted a bigamous marriage with a young girl last October. Mr Justice Reed said: “The girl you married last year was under age, and apparently the solo reason you married her was to avoid imprisonment for carnal knowledge.”
James Raymond Slattery, aged twenty-one, on sixteen charges of theft, was sentenced to five years’ hard labor, the accused having a bad record extending back to 1923. William Maddison Alt, aged forty, a motor mechanic, who pleaded guilty to three charges of obtaining money by false pretences, was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention. Tho sum of £1,564 was involved, and £7OO in Alt’s possession was ordered to bo handed over,
Joseph L. Lcttica, breaking and entering and theft at Dargaville, was sentenced to one year’s reformative detention.
Francis Mulligan, aged thirty, for theft of money at Hamilton, was sentenced to two years’ hard labor.
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Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 6
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176SUPREME COURT Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 6
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