SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 223, 20 June 1925, Page 4

SUPREME COURT

» PRISONERS SENTENCED. By TbleghaPh—Press Association. Christchurch, June 18. For breaking, entering, and tneit, Edmund Harrington Vvaru, Leo James McGowan, and Cyril McGuire were sentenced at the Supremo Court this moriiinir to reformative treatment for two years. Albert Stuart Davidson (31), for the theft ot an overcoat, was admitted to probation. Gisborne, June 18. In the Supreme Court to-duy Harold Duncan McLaren, charged with attempte rape or alternatively with indecent assault or common assault, was found ■’Hilly of indecent assault, the jury adding a strong recommendation to leniencj ou account of the circumstances leading to tho assault. Accused was given twelve months’ probation and ordered to pay th© costs of the prosecution. Dunedin, June 19. In the Supreme Court the folowing prisoners were sentenced:—Clive Argyle Wood, forgerj' (three charges), oiie year’s imprisonment on each, to be cumulative. John Milne, breaking, entering, and theft, three years at the Borstal Institution; Colin Frederick McDonald. Robert McDonald Mcßeatli, Frank Abbott McDonald, and William Russell Lamb, breaking, entering, and theft, three years’ probation. Nelson, June 17. The jurv failed to agree on the bookmaking charges agaiiist William H. Moxev and Maurice Vyviati Maxwell. New'trials were ordered. A jury similarly failed to agree at tne last sitting of the Court.