RECEIVER GAOLED

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31349, 20 April 1967, Page 8

RECEIVER GAOLED

Costs Of £lOO To Be Paid

Two men were imprisoned, one for receiving stolen goods, and a third man fined £75 when sentenced by Mr Justice Macarthur in the Supreme Court yesterday, after being convicted after trial by jury last week.

Alister Ambrose Bruce, aged 48, a motor mechanic (Mr M. G, L. Loughnan), said to be the proprietor of a small freehold business, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for receiving 18,200 cigarettes, valued at £lOB ss, part of the proceeds of a £2OOO burglary at Dingwall and Paulger, Ltd.’s warehouse on September 13 last

His Honour said that it was a bad case of receiving, and that a receiver of such disposable goods was a menace to society. He ordered that Bruce be placed on a year’s probation on the expiry of the prison term, and pay £lOO towards the cost of the prosecution. . Peter Lloyd Machirus, aged 21, a freezing worker (Mr L. M. O’Reilly), on a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond in that he frequented Ferry road by night with felonious intent was sentenced to six months’ Imprisonment—concurrent with a two-year term he is already serving for attempted theft His Honour told Machirus he was building up a thoroughly bad record in crime. “It is to be hoped you learn your lesson,” his Honour said.

Carnegie Neilson, aged 44, a carpenter (Mr M. F. Hobbs), was fined £75, and placed on probation until the fine is paid, for receiving stolen tools valued at £64 15s, his Honour saying that it was not such a bad case as the previous one, and that the public interest did not demand Neilson’s imprisonment