PRISONERS SENTENCED
SITTING OF SUPREME COURT IN WELLINGTON.
(Ry Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day.
John Donne Collins, 26, a labourer, was sentenced by Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court to four years’ imprisonment with hard labour for false pretences. He was indicted on seven charges of forgery, four of uttering and four of theft.
Thomas William Hill. 23, a labourer was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention on seven charges of breaking, entering and theft. Hill appeared later in the Magistrate’s Court and was convicted and discharged on two charges of theft from the New Zealand railways. It was stated that the thefts were from railway carriages at Wellington station, where-the accused and others were in the habit of sleeping. Offence:: of this kind had been prevalent.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 March 1939, Page 8
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128PRISONERS SENTENCED Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 March 1939, Page 8
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