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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 9

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FOUR PRISONERS SUPREME COURT SENTENCES Four prisoners were sentenced in the Supreme Com:, to-day by Mr. justice Callan for offences which they had admitted. Anthony Kurtach iiiU). for whom Mr Baxter made a plea tor leniency on a charge of unlawful carnal knowledge, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, his Honor remarking that there were mitigating circumstances justifying liis making the sentence a shori one. The granting o f probation in such cases, he added, might. In: misunderstood. George Halscv Rignall. a married man. aged .">(> years, who had pleaded L'tiilty "to theft, as a servant, was said by Mr. Arkins to be a man without any former criminal blemish and with a good name generally. He had served his country in the navy and was back again in such .service. His Honor said that apparently the accused had no extravagances and had lent money to his employers, but for a period extending over a number of months lie had deliberately stolen money amounting to over £200. It was not an impulsive act. Prisoner was sentenced to s-ix months' hard labour. Frederick Ford '27). and Victor Jvers (20» were both reported by the Probation Officer as having committed offences while on probation, for which they wvvv now in gaol. Ford. was. therefore, sentenced, on the offences for which he was granted probation, to bo detained for reformative purposes for two years. Ivers, similarly sentenced for the offences on which lie hud been granted probation, was given a term of nine months' hard labour.