SENTENCES AT DUNEDIN

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 25, 29 July 1933, Page 13

SENTENCES AT DUNEDIN

(By Telegraph.—Press- Association.)

DTJNEDIN, July 28.

Cecil Frederick, Hill, three charges of breaking, entering, and theft, was sentenced in the Supreme Court today to two • years' reformative detention on each charge,.; the•• sentences to be concurrent.. ,; , . ~

James Wallace Shaw Abernethy, for failing to account'for'lhoney; was sentenced to ■ niac months' refoijmative detention. , . Charles Percival Robert MeCreatn, William Arthur Stewart, and Albert Harris were charged i with attempted breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime, and breaking and entering a warehouse and. committing theft. Harris was sentenced to hard labour for one year and* two years, the sentences to be concurrent, McCreath was ordered to be detained for reformative purposes for one year, ana on another charge was given detention for two years, the sentences to be concurrent. Stewart was sentenced on each of two charges to nine months' reformative detention, the sentence's to be concurrent. On a charge of receiving a quantity of stolen property belonging to Scott and Wilson, Harris was sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for two years, the sentence to be cumulative with the sentence ho is at. present serving, but concurrent with the sentences imposed that morning. Harris, on a. joint charge of receiving,with Albert Sharp, -was sentenced to years' imprisonment with hard labour, the sentence to tie cumulative with his present sentence, but concurrent with others. ; .