Sentence on Mrs. Osborne.
. ♦ At the Central Criminal Court Judge Smith passed the following sentence on Mrs Osborne, in the case known aa " the pearl case." Mr Justice Smith said : Florence Ethel Osborne, you have been found
guilty of stealing the jewels of your cousin, of converting them into money, and approp.iating that money to your own use. When the finger of suspicion pointed at you you commenced an action for defamation of character, and in that action you insisted that you had stolen the jewels, leading your eminent counsel to suggest that if you were not the thief another was. All I can say is this— that if you had succeeded in that action by your wilful perjury Major and Mrs Hargreave would have left the court with an indelible stain on their character. The maximum punishment for perjury is seven years' penal servitude. lam not going to inflict that but the sentence of the court is that you be imprisoned tor nine months, with such hard labour as your state of health will allow you to perform.
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Manawatu Herald, 28 April 1892, Page 2
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179Sentence on Mrs. Osborne. Manawatu Herald, 28 April 1892, Page 2
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