SUPREME COURT.
WOMAN CONVICTED OF PERJURY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night._ A married woman named Anne Nicholson was, at the Supreme Court to-day, found guilty of perjury, with a strong recommendation to mercy. Sentence was deferred till to-morrow. The case arose' out of recent proceedings in a bankruptcy ease, in which the woman, who was lately a storekeeper near Mercury Bay, swore that she had lent various sums of money to certain Auckland creditors and had received receipts for the payments, these receipts being, she said, afterwards burned without her knowledge during the fumigation of the store. I Richard Arthur Morris was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for assault.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 109, 4 June 1909, Page 2
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110SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 109, 4 June 1909, Page 2
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