PRISONERS SENTENCED
Dominic Augustine Clausen, a labourer, aged 44, and Harold Charles Carswell Helson, a labourer, aged 25, were sentenced to nine months' and six months' hard labou1. respectively by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers), in the Supreme Court yesterday, for breaking and entering and theft, to which they had pleaded guilty at Wanganui. Clarence Albert Butterfield, alias Bush, a cabinetmaker and labourer, aged 36, who had pleaded guilty in Wellington to breaking and entering and theft, was sentenced to two years' reformative detention, to be concurrent with sentences now being served.
Jack lan Ruffell, an apprentice painter, aged 19, Ronald Tudor, a labourer, aged 22, and Keith Budgeweil Yealands, a labourer, aged 18, were admitted to twelve months' probation, and each ordered to pay the costs of prosecution, £1 3s Bd. Ruffell pleaded guilty to one charge of unlawful carnal knowledge at Blenheim, Yealands to two charges, and Tudor to three charges of attempted carnal knowledge. The prisoners were represented by Mr. W. E. Leicester.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 142, 13 December 1939, Page 19
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