A DISREPUTABLE GANG.
CONVICTION AT PALMERSTON. I'Pf.r Press Association.! PALAIERSTON N., Oct. 18. At the Police Court at Palmerston North to-day, before Air. A. D. Thomson, S.M., Claude Retter and Charles Cannon alias Cripps, alias Watson, were charged with beiug idle and disorderly persons. Retter swore that ho owned a trotting horse, and had £4O in the Post Office Sayings Bank. Tho case was adjourned for a short time to allow inquiries to be made. It was found that the statement was false, and .Retter was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. An information was then laid against* him for perjury, and he was remanded till Mondav next. Cannon was also convicted and sentenced to three mouths’. A charge* of theft preferred against him of stealing clothing and goods, value £7, from the residence of George Ransford, of Palmerston, was also remanded till Atonday. ‘ Ettie White, a woman who has been living with Retter and Cannon, was charged with vagrancy, and was remanded to tho same date. The evidence showed that Cannon, especially, had been consorting with tliieves, and had served five years fog assault and robbery, and several other convictions-
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2636, 19 October 1909, Page 4
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190A DISREPUTABLE GANG. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2636, 19 October 1909, Page 4
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