SUPREME COURT.
SENTENCES AT PALMERSTON. (Per Press Association^ WELLINGTON, March 21. Prisoners were dealt with by Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court to-day. Thomas James Balfour Mason, for theft of £B6, was sentenced to reformative treatment not to exceed 18 months. John Doyle, for stealing £7O, was sentenced to reformative detention not exceeding 12 months. Frederick James Greer, aged 18, for incest at Wairoa, was sentenced to reformative detention in the Borstal Institution for not more than four years. John Lindsay, for forgery and uttering, was re-declared- an habitual offender and sentenced to two years in goal, concurrent on each of a number of charges. Edward Frederick Brider and Rupert Leslie Walter Pull, for cattle stealing at Wanganui, was admitted to probation and ordered to pay costs. George Henry Smith, for theft from a dwelling at Palmerston North, was sentenced to 12 months in gaol and redeclared an habitual offender. David Laing, for assault on a female child at Levin, was sentenced to two years in gaol.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 137, 22 March 1935, Page 3
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