CRIMES PUNISHED.
AUCKLAND, This Day. In the Supreme Court, Henry Osman, aged 45, a labourer, was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment for bigamy. He married first in 1934, 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 sole reason you married her was to avoid imprisonment for carnal knowledge.” James Raymond Slattery, aged 21, on sixteen charges of theft, was sentenced to live years’ hard labour, the accused having a bad record extending back to 1923. In the Supreme Court, William Maddison Alt, aged 40, a motor mechanic, who'pleaded guilty to three charges of obtaining money by false pretences, was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention. A sum of .21505 was involved, and £7OO was in Alt’s possession Tills was'i rdemd to be handed over. Joseph Let tu-:i, for breaking, cubvsng and thef: :.t Dargaville. was sen-•et-f-'d to cue year’s rofe■ rnativo Ire..:!UiLrii.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 February 1928, Page 5
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161CRIMES PUNISHED. Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 February 1928, Page 5
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