PRISONERS SENTENCED.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19852, 13 February 1930, Page 9

PRISONERS SENTENCED.

(CBK3B ASSOCIATION TBLBORAlI.)

AUCKLAND, February 12,

In the Supreme Court prisoners were sentenced by Mr Justice Smith as follows: — Charles Mozart Spinley, for bigamy and making a false declaration, two years' hard labour. _ . James Anthony Lynch, for receiving stolen goods, eighteen months' reformative detention. Edward Richard Black, for theft (two counts) and attempted theft, three vears' hard labour. David Todd, for theft, two years' hard labour. Claude Paget, for theft, one year's hard labour. , Todd and Paget were associated with Black in one theft. Sentences passed by Mr Justice Herdman were: — » Sydney Herbert Norman, for indecent assault on a male and one on a female, seven years' hard labour. The Judge said he could order the prisoner to be 'flogged, and he should have done so but for the fact that he suspected the prisoner might bo mentally unbalanced. Derek Norman Moore Wright, for negligent dr.ivinn and causing death, was fined £IOO and his motorist's license was cancelled for three years. Thomas Leonard Williams, for theft and false pretences, two years' probation. Frederick Dixon, for breaking, entering, and theft, eighteen months' hard labour. David Barry, for theft, forgery, and false pretences, three years' Borstal. David Henry Mehaffey, for theft of a cow, two years' reformative detention. Sydney Charles Marshall, for indecent assault on a female, two years* Borstal. Alan Alexander Cuthbertson, for indecent assault on a child, two years' reformative detention.

SEVEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENT

(I>KES9 ASSOCIATION TELEGBA.H.) AUCKLAND, February 12. Maud Herbert, aged 49 years, for unlawfully using an instrunment, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment by Mr Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court to-day. The Judge said that but for the fact that some members of the Grand Jury were apparently unable to take a correct view of the statutory limitations or their legal duties, Herbert would have stood her trial for murder. He had no doubt that the prisoner was directly responsible for a young woman's death. Never before in his career had he listened to a story so shocking and so utterly revolting.