SUPREME COURT
PEISONERS SENTENCED.
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AUCKLAND, This Day
At the Supreme Court to-day, Robert Allan Caton was sentenced to seven years'.'imprisonment' and ordered - en: Hogging of ten strokes, on seven. charges of indecent assault on males. Mr. Justice Stringer stated that he could not conceive of a case presenting worse features. Jt was quite impossible to foresee the injuries that may have been done ■to the mental and physical' health of tho victims. ,
Reginald Trevor-.and Leonard Richard Cunningham were charged with con? spiring to defraud a country visitor of ±!20. The former was placed on probation for three years, and ordered to maice restitution, ' and prohibited from visiting, races. Cunningham, who had ;i previous conviction in Australia, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. Angus Taylor, aged 21, for indecent assault, was.sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. ■ John Buckley, for breaking, entering, and theft, was sentenced to two years' hard labour. Reynold Pittan, for attempted breaking, entering, and theft, and a separate charge .of. theft, was sentenced .to two years', hard labour. PALMERSTON >?., This Day. At the Supreme Court to-day, Edward Elijah Pardoe, convicted of theft, was sentenced to eighteen months', reformativa treatment.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 33, 8 August 1923, Page 6
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