An Excitable Prisoner.
CHIEF JUSTICE INCREASES A SENTENCE. [PBR PHESS iSSPSUTION.] • WELLINGTON, This Day. John Morris Schapiro, furniture mairufacturer, was brought up before the Chief Justice to-dny for sentence for failing to keep proper hooks. His Honour said that the prisoner had been under sentence since May the 9th, and ho proposed to sentence him to three months and two weeks imprisonment, which really meant that ho would have to serve a little under one month. The prisoner, in excited tones, exclaimed : "It's pure perjury, f don't care if yon give ino ten years; its pure perjury." The Judge ordered tho prisoner to bo brought back and snid: "Instead of serving a sentence of throe months and two weeks, you will be. sentenced to four months with l hard labour. Perhaps it will teach you to behave yourself when in court."
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 July 1910, Page 3
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141An Excitable Prisoner. Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 July 1910, Page 3
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