SUPREME COURT.
NAPIER SESSIONS. CHIEF JUSTICE'S STRIBTURSB. By Telegraph.—Press Association. , Napier, Last Night. ' At the Supreme Court, James Donghl, for theft from a dwelling at Waipawa, wag sentenced to three years' reformative treatment. James Corbett Murphy, alias Sullivan, was sentenced to four month*' hard labor for misappropriating funds of the Seamen's Union. Sir Robert Stout said accused had been straightforward in the matter, and continued: "I don't know what is going to happen to the qountry if this extravaganco goes on." Murphy had been in receipt at times of as much as £5 a week, and had saved nothing out of this after providing for his wife and four children. "The extravagance since the war is a disgrace to the community," added His Honor. Richard Dann was found not guilty of causing actual bodily harm to a child struck by a motor ear driven by accusedAfter the verdict, Sir Robert Stout remarked to the Crown Prosecutor: "1 suppose you had better not bring any more cases for negligence in Napier."
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1919, Page 4
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170SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1919, Page 4
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