SMUGGLING CHARGE
WOMAN SENT TO GOAL IN U.S.A. COURT’S SEVERE REPRIMAND. By Telegraph—Press Associatibn—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 11. Mrs Lauer was sentenced to three months in prison and fined 2500 dollars for smuggling and was-also placed on probation for a year. The Court 1 flayed the defendant, saying she would have been sentenced to a longer term despite her Social position,, except for her health. She .was goaled because she Was a second offender. A cablegram from New York on December 12 stated that the authorities had recently arrested the wife of a New York Judge and an agent who allegedly smuggled clothing and jewellery for prominent people by claiming diplomatic privileges. Information is believed to have been lodged with the authorities by a servant in the Judge's household, who, incensed by anti-Nazi remarks made at the dinner table, left a threatening note, “You’ll suffer for this.” . ■ -
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1939, Page 6
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152SMUGGLING CHARGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1939, Page 6
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