SUPREME COURT

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 8

SUPREME COURT

CHRISTCHTIRCH SESSIONS.

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CHRISTCHURCH, This/Day. Mr. Justice Eeed, in the -Supreme Court, m sentencing George Beaumont 'to five years' imprisonment with hard labour ;oh each of :seven-charges o£.,iadecent assault on girls, said the greatest protection should be given to young girls' modesty.' Beaumcint had broken that modesty in several girls, and.Jfc was impossible to say what results would follow unless they forgot it. The'.puhr Ishment was for two purposes—one was. as a deterrent to the offender, the other' was to/warn others. ' , . , y,T' George Judge was sentenced, to \lyia years], imprisonment for indecentJ exposure ;at Ashburton, the; Judge imposing the maximum sentence, in the hope of 'protecting, the public from' .the mania of sexual perverts. .'"'■ : Richard' Cheyne was sentenced to .» year's imprisonment for the theft of fa bicycle, the "Judge remarking that he had no sympathy for such a mean: theft. Eric Reginald Jackson, on two charges of attempting to obtain money by means of a valueless cheque, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, in view' of previous conviction's. ■ 'v

Bernard Charles Cole, a bank clerk, aged 19 years, was given probation. Francis Spargoe Nicholls, for failing to account for moneys at Ashburton, was' sentenced to three years' probation:- ' Edward Leslie Hills, aged 17,'"'■ who had married without his parents' consent, and making a declaration that he was 21, was fined £2.' '-.-"• ,

Ernest Wilkinson, on five charges of: forgery and two of uttering,-; was given three years' probation, and ordered to make restitution. : ■'.-. ..>

James Horje Hunter Matri, of Colac Bay, for passing a valueless cheque, wai sentenced to twelve months' ■ imprisonment, and declared an habitual criminal.

Robert Henery Edgeworth, for theft, was sentenced to a "year's hard labour.

Albert Berry,, aged 18,--". for'-■breaking and entering, was given : two,'years' refomiative detention. ■■_ ■■ „ ; ' . .■:. ' David Ilentsche, aged 19, for breaking, and entering, was sentenced to five yeaitf' reformatiyg detention.