SUPREME COURT.
A WOMAN SENTENCED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Supreme Court resumed the hearing of the charge of theflt of £585 4s 2d, the moneys of the WoodviHe County Council, preferred against Martha Hutching, late county clerk. Accused, further examined, still persisted in the statement that she was .blackmailed by a certain man who had since died at the front; also that she paid money to another man who was levying blackmail from her. This man was also dead, and the Crown produced evidence of his health being such that he could not have acted as alleged (by accused. Justiae Edwards remarked that the case was a painful one, but the Court could not view lightly such serious offences. He could not credit accused's story of blackmail. She would be sentenced to two y«ar»' r*fownativ« treat-
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 June 1918, Page 5
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139SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, 5 June 1918, Page 5
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