SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 4

SUPREME COURT

PRISONERS SENTENCED AT DUNEDIN. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, August 2. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court concluded this afternoon when four prisoners were called before Mr. Justice Kennedy for sentence. Raymond Theodore Padman, for breaking and entering the shop of a blind pensioner and stealing cigarettes and other goods to the value of £8 6s. 6d., was ordered to be detained in a Borstal Institute for two years, the sentence to be concurrent with that, he is now serving in an institute. William Rainsdon Avery, charged with the theft of a motor-car, with breaking and entering (six charges), and with escaping from Dunedin prison, was ordered to be detained in a Borstal Institute for a period of two years on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. Edward Gillespie, for forging cheques .in South Otago, was ordered to be detained for reformative purposes for a period of 18 months. Frederic Arthur Lloyd, until recently clerk of the Maniototo County Council, received a sentence of one year’s hard labour for theft of money, thereafter to be detained for reformative purposes for a further period of one year. On a charge of failing to pay certain moneys into a bank he was convicted and discharged. Accused’s broke down on hearing his sentence, and had to be assisted from the dock by a police officer. Walter Reynolds Sanders, who had already pleaded guilty to theft of mail bags in Dunedin, was not called on as he is at present in hospital.