SENTENCE DAY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 173, 24 July 1941, Page 4

SENTENCE DAY

IN SUPREME COURT

TEN MEN BEFORE JUDGE

A number of prisoners who had been found guilty during the current criminal session, and others who had entered pleas of guilty in the lower Court were sentenced in the Supremo Court to-dav.

Robert Nathan, a young Maori, who had been convicted of breaking and entering, and of theft on a considerable scale in the Henderson district, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Callan to three years' hard labour, his Honor remarking that the Court hud to take notice of an epidemic in Auckland at present of breaking an.l entering.

Also convicted of breaking and entering. Raymond Leslie Boreham. a carpenter, was sentenced to IS months' hard labour. John Henry WiLson, who had been charged witii burglary at a Hikurangi store, but was found guilty on the second count of theft, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, to be concurrent with a sentence he is now serving.

Edgar Nelson, a labourer convicted of having assaulted a young woman in the Ponsonby district at night, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, bis Honor stating that :t was the Court's duty to protect women in these times of blackout and unusual danger to women who had to be on the streeis after dark.

Convicted of indecent assault on another male, Cyril Lewis Walter Withell, seaman and camp cook, sentenced to three years' hard labour.

Arraigned before Mr. .Justice Fair, after conviction by a jury cm charges of theft and of receiving stolen property, George Joseph Tunstoad was sentenced to one year's imprisonment.

Clarence Cyril Watts, who had admitted housebre;iking with intent to commit a crime, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, ami Andrew James Stott, ior a similar offence, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

For false pretences at Auckland and Hamilton, Percival Lewis Ward was admitted to probation for three years, with the condition that restitution be made at. £1 per week. Probation over a period of three years, with stringent conditions, was extended also to Cyril Hubert Tear-; for an attempt at indecent assault in the Taumarunui district.