SUPREME COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 115, 18 May 1938, Page 16

SUPREME COURT

SENTENCES FOR CRIME

CHRISTCHURCH PRISONERS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 17. Prisoners were sentenced by Mr. Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court today as follows:— Anthony George Bouterey, subornation of perjury, two years' hard labour. Albert Edward Lindeloff, burglary and asasult causing bodily harm, 12 months' imprisonment and 18 months' hard labour, the terms to be concurrent. George Marks, carnal knowledge, 12 months' hard labour. Frederick Eggetlon, unnatural offence, two years' reformative detention- . . George Campbell, failure to stop his car after an accident, fine of £10, licence cancelled, and disqualified as a driver for two years. Edwards Dardanell de Malmanche, house-breaking and theft, two years' probation. _ Stanley Dudley Keats, Clarence Burnaby, Maurice Roy Beaven, Stanley Frederick Robert Scott, sheep-stealing, three years' probation. His Honour said he did not propose to discriminate among these people. Charges of sheep-stealing were difficult to detect and were regarded as serious. It was rare for men to be placed on probation for this offence, and were it not for the sympathetic report of the probation officer, he would not think of admitting people to probation. As it was, they had stolen to relieve the needs of distressed families, and, although it must not be taken that he condoned stealing by families in such circumstances, he proposed to take the unusual but merciful course of placing them on probation. Hugh Lowther, receiving stolen property, two years' hard labour. Tom Hazard, John Searle, Rawei Arthur Wilkinson, Herbert Francis Hempehstall, Harold Thomes Stringer, Herbert Arthur Currie, and Harold Herbert Stackhouse, theft of goods, each six months' hard labour. John Alfred Rhodes, false pretence, convicted and discharged. Colin Walter Schiavi, carnal knowledge, four months' hard labour.