SENTENCES AT AUCKLAND
PRISON ESCAPEES SENT TO GAOL.
(US TELEGRAPH, —MESS ASSOCIATION.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
At the Supreme Court, Ernest John Brastiug, Gustav Henry Hansen, and William Thomas O'BHen, who gained notoriety for their activities in breaking and entering houses, converting motors to their own use, and escaping from prison, were each sentenced to five years' hard labour, and declared habitual criminals. Brasting aud O'Brien expressed their intention to appeal.
' John Leslie Buckley, breaking, entering, theft, and who was concerned in an offence with Brasting, was sentenced to four years' hard labour.
William Lawrence M'Kae, for attempting an indecent assault on a male, received five years' hard labour; John Petley, forgery, theft, and false pretences, two years' hard labour; Leslie T. Devlin, breaking, entering, and theft, eighteen months' reformative treatment; William Joseph James Mills, false pretences, two years' reformative treatment; Vincent Joseph M'Slono and William Howell, breaking, entering, and theft, the former got twelve months' reformative treatment, and the latter three years' reformative treatment; Frederick Oswald Sakey, breaking, entering, and theft, two years' reformative treatment.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 105, 30 October 1925, Page 6
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175SENTENCES AT AUCKLAND Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 105, 30 October 1925, Page 6
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