CRIMINAL TRIALS.
e Auckcand, May 31. Arthur Harris, a jockey, aged twenty years, convicted of indecent assault, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with hard labour. John Thomas Bennett, aged fitty-five years, pleaded guilty to false pretences, and was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, and declared an habitual criminal. Prisoner’s record commenced with a conviction for larceny in 1886, and included eighteen convictions, involving twenty-four years’ imprisonment. Christchurch. May 31. At the Supreme Court to-day Oscar Robert Blair pleaded guilty to three charges of forgery, and was sentenced to six months’ hard labour on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3767, 1 June 1907, Page 3
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101CRIMINAL TRIALS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3767, 1 June 1907, Page 3
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