SUPREME COURT.
dunedTx^essigns. , (Press Association Telegram.) DUNEDIN, Aug. 10. John Bell MeClymont- stood his retrial at the Supreme Court to-day oil a charge of stealing L2l 7s, canteen money of the l-lth Regiment, and was acquitted. In summing up, Judge Sim commented on accused’s good fortune in having been acquitted on the iorniei charge, and expressed the opinton that accused did not leave the Court wit) an unstained olutructor. - v Id l '- I ' l * officer was supposed to he a- gent.lonian and a man of honor and integrity an< it was clear accused was not that-. ; His Honor sentenced John RobeitHenderson to one year’s imprisonment with hard labor on several charges ot stealing the moneys of the regiment, regretting that a promising career had been cancelled.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4010, 17 August 1915, Page 7
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