PERJURY.
SENTENCE OF SEVEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 14. At the Supreme Court to day, Henry Terawhiti, a Maori, fourd guilty of perjury, in whose case the jury made a recommendation to mercy, on the ground that he had bien the catspaw of a clever criminal,'appeared for sentence. Judge Edwards said that the jury did not know the facts as I*2 did. Had not a solicitior in the case in which perjury was committed concealed a shorthand writer in the room in wfii.h the conversation bfetween the parties had be«n made, the other man would have been convicted, and Terawhi i escaped scot free. The perjury was committed with the object of getting another in an convicted. It was a vicious,; serious offence, and accused would be sentenced to seven years' imprisonment.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3217, 15 June 1909, Page 5
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135PERJURY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3217, 15 June 1909, Page 5
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