WEST HAM WORKHOUSE SCANDAL
CONSPIRACY CASES. GUARDIANS SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT. Received May 19, 5.8 p.m; LONDON, May 18. The trial of the Guardians of the West Ham Workhouse on a charge of conspiracy has concluded. All the accused were convicted, with the exception of Tarrant, who was discharged. Crump and Lewis Hill were each sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour. Both were permanently disqualified from holding office and declared to be incapable of voting for a period of seven years. Hodgkin was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, Anderson and Skinner to fifteen months, Watts and Riches to nine months, and Frank Hill and Uaird to six months, all with civic disqualification.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8446, 20 May 1907, Page 5
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113WEST HAM WORKHOUSE SCANDAL Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8446, 20 May 1907, Page 5
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