GAOL AND BORSTAL
PRISONERS SENTENCED
Maxwell Ernest Butler, a mechanic, aged 25, was sentenced by the Chief Justice. (Sir Michael. Myers),; in the Supreme Court yesterday, to two years' reformative detention for unlawfully converting a motor-car at Hamilton, the sentence to be concurrent with twelve months' reformative detention now being served. His Honour warned the* prisoner that he was heading for a declaration as a habitual criminal, a course that would probably be taken if he came before .the Court again.
Frederick Jennings, a labourer, aged 20, was sentenced to three years' detention in a Borstal institution for assault with intent to commit rape. George Clarence Wilson, a clerk and cook, was sentenced to fifteen months' hard labour for forging a promissory note at Wellington. He was warned that he might be declared a habitual criminal-if he appeared again. Revel Michalick, a picture operator, of Dannevirke, : was sentenced to fifteen months' reformative detention on charges of indecently assaulting a female at Raetihi.
Mr. W. H. Cunningham appeared for the Crown. '-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 122, 19 November 1937, Page 15
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170GAOL AND BORSTAL Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 122, 19 November 1937, Page 15
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