SUPREME COURT
PRISONERS SENTENCED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Nighti' Mr Justice Chapman kid three prisoners ..before (him yesterday for sentence. Lewis Witten, . aged.". 44, convicted of.indecent assault>iin.d : 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 s the first of which was dated 1891). There was also a conviction for indecent exposiire at Otaki. On the first charge the sentence was five years' imprisonment, with hard labour, and on the second- one year's imprisonment, the terms to be cumulative. George Cecil Coleman, aged 19, for the theft of postal' packets at Nelson, was sentenced to three months' 'imprisonment. Henry Hay, wlio stole money from a man in, the Foresters' Arms Hotel, was .admitted to probation for three years, on condition that he abstained from all in-' toxiicaiit* and paid-£5, in .Monthly instalments of 10s, towards the cost of the prosecution.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10550, 5 February 1912, Page 5
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159SUPREME COURT Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10550, 5 February 1912, Page 5
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