SEVEN YEARS FOR ARSON
“VERY SERIOUS OFFENCE” Press Association. WELLINGTON, Wednesday, when James Perry was sentenced to imprisonment" for five years in September tor breaking and entering, he had declined in the lower Court to plead guilty to attempted arson at Ki.birnie. but afterwards he did so, thougu he said he bad no recollection of having attenrtpted to set fir© to on© of the houses he had entered. He came up for fenter.ee at the Supreme Court today. ~ 4 . . Mr. Justic MacGregor said the offence was a very serious one, and it was his plain duty to impose a substantia] sentence. H© ordered seven years’ imprisonment, concurrent with the present sentence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 192, 3 November 1927, Page 7
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111SEVEN YEARS FOR ARSON Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 192, 3 November 1927, Page 7
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