MUDDLED THINGS
MONEY NOT ACCOUNTED FOR SENTENCES AT CHRISTCHURCH. Par Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, JTovember 18. William Francis Halliburton, -al commission agent, pleaded guilty at the Supreme Court to charges of receiving various sums of money, totalling £650,. at Ashburton, and fraudulently omitting to account for them. Sentence was postponed. His counsel stated that the prisoner had made 4 muddle of things. Ernest le Compte, for an indecent set, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. Roy Walter Watts, a postal officer, for theft of a ’ postal packet, was admitted to probation for ’ two years. Frederick Richardson James, for attempted rape, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, the judge stating that the prisoner was lucky to escape a flogging.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12608, 19 November 1926, Page 6
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117MUDDLED THINGS New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12608, 19 November 1926, Page 6
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