TRIAL AND SENTENCE
Auckland Supreme Court
THEFT OF £4l IN A SAFE
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Auckland, April 11
Prisoners were sentenced at the Supreme Court to-day by bis llono.it Mr Justice Smith. Three Maoris from an isolated Native settlement in the Bay of Islands admitted the concealment of the birth of a stillborn child. Counsel said accused appeared to be ignorant of the law and had followed t he custom of buying the body in tayu ground. The judge, after a genera warning, fined James Munn an<» admitted Isabella and Ella Munn tn probation for one year. James am. Isabella were the grandparents and Ella was the mother of the infant. Alexander Joseph O’Brien, aged 19, aud Ted Richard Lewis Cormack, aged 161 admitted the theft of a safe containing £-H from a city shop last month. The safe was bodily removed, then opened and buried in a section. His Honour said it was not a case for probation and sentenced O’Brien Io three years in a Borstal institution and Cormack to two years.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 168, 12 April 1932, Page 11
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174TRIAL AND SENTENCE Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 168, 12 April 1932, Page 11
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