SUPREME COURT.
BARNSLEY CONVICTED. (Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, October 27. Pleading not guilty to seven charges of forgery, and seven of uttering, Herbert Edwin Barnsley, aged 52, accountant, relief worker and late secretary and treasurer to the Labour Defence League, was found guilty and was remanded for sentence. ' THREE MONTHS' HARD LABOUR.CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Barnsley was sentenced by Mr Justice Ostler to three months' hard labour. OTHER PRISONERS SENTENCED. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. At the Supreme court to-day, Mr Justice Ostler sentenced two prisoners. Morris Blaxall, a jeweller, aged 39, for obtaining money by false pretences (six charges) was sentenced to three months' hard labour. The Judge said: "I believe you really thought y6u could not be* touched by the law, but 1 also believe you knew you were doing a mean trick." Prisoner had made medals with a silver core and a coating of gold, and sold them as solid gold; Gordon Webb Hazeldine, for burglary and theft, was sentenced to three years' reformative detention. " The Crown Prosecutor said that Hazeldine was an exceedingly dangerous man, who had for a long period made a considerable income by theft and boasted of it.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 15, 28 October 1932, Page 5
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