SUPREME COURT.
WELLINGTON SESSIONS. j By Telegraph—Pre» Association. Wellington, Last Night. Mr. Justice Chapman had three prisoners before him yesterday for sentence. Lewis Witten, aged 44 (indecent assault and indecent exposure), had nothing to say as to why sentence should not be passed upon him. Mr. Ostler read out a list of convictions for theft and forgery, the first of which was dated 1896. There was also a conviction foi indecent exposure at Otaki. On the first charge the sentence was five years' imIprisonment with hard labor, and on the j second one year's imprisonment, the I terms to be cumulative, i George Cecil Coleman, aged 19, for •theft of pqstal packets, at Nelson, was ■< sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Henry Hay, who. stole money from* man in the Foresters' Arms Hotel, was admitted to probation for three years on condition that he abstained frdm allMn- ! toxicants and paid £5 in monthly in- : stalments of 10s towards the cost of the I prosecution.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 186, 5 February 1912, Page 8
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163SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 186, 5 February 1912, Page 8
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