GUILTY OF ASSAULT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 180, 1 August 1944, Page 6

GUILTY OF ASSAULT

OKE MAU SENT TO GAOL PROBATION GRANTED ANOTHER CPA.) WELLINGTON, this day. After an hour's retirement, the jury found Waiter Hoy Webster guilty on both counts of assaulting Terence Francis Really so as to cause him actual bodily harm and of intent to defraud by using a threat of violence unlawfully to compel Really to sign his name on a property transfer agreement. Charles Finch was found guilty on a charge of common assault only and not guilty on the second charge of alleged threat of violence.

The jury strongly recommended mercy for Finch. Webster was sentenced to-day by Mr. Justice Blair to one year's'imprisoiiment with hard labour'for assault, and finch was admitted to probation for eighteen months.

His Honor said that as far as Finch was concerned the jury had taken the view that he had been led into the matter. A special condition of the terms of his probation would be the nayment of £10 towards the cost of the prosecution. During the currency of Sis probation Finch was not to associate with Wheeler and Holloway. Webster was sentenced only on the assault charge, and was remanded for sentence on the other pending a decision by the Court of Appeal regarding the status of the document as "a valuable security."