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| CASE AT WELLINGTON PRISONERS SENTENCED (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAH.* WELLINGTON, February 7. Prisoners were sentenced by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) this morning. John Phillip Crampton Collett, for a criminal offence against a girl of four and a half years and indecent assault on a girl of eight years, was sentenced to seven years' hard labour and 15 strokes of the cat on the first charge, and three years' hard labour on the second, the sentences to be concurrent. His Honour said that, abhorrent as the idea of corporal punishment was to him, he had been convinced on reading the depositions that Collett was deserving of such punishment. However, his Honour had taken the precaution of procuring a medical report and this showed that there was no ground why the punishment lie thought necessary should not be inflicted. . . , . Ronald Edward Morrison, for breaking and entering at NeisDn, was sentenced to 18 months' reformative detention. .His Honour remarked that Morrison was fast qualifying as an habitual criminal, and if he came before the court again he was certain to be so declared. John McCarthy; for breaking, entering, and theft at Palmerston North, was sentenced to 18 months' hard labour. Benjamin Kirkbride, for assault and causing actual bodily harm, was admitted to probation for one year and ordered to pay £22 6s, the costs of the prosecution, within six months.