PRISONERS SENTENCED.

Evening Star, Issue 14575, 25 May 1911, Page 2

PRISONERS SENTENCED.

At the Supreme Court., Auckland, vesterday Walter Francis Darby, a bankrupt merchant, whose ease was recently before tho Appeal Court, came up for sentence on seven charges of breaches of tho Bankruptcy Act. Judge Chapman said there was no evidence of fraudulent intent; it was rather of recklessness, perhaps carelessness. Taking into consideration what accused bad already suffered, he imposed only a nominal penalty of two months' hard labor, which would date from the conviction, and therefore would have been already served. Thomas M'Donald, a clerk in the Hank of New Zealand, charged with theft and falsifying a ledger, was sentenced to eight months' hard labor. Frederick Thomas Martyn, theft from vessels, was sentenced to two years on e:ich of two charges, and was declared a habitual criminal. Charles Kiwi Wilkinson, a half-caste Maori, aged eighteen, and Charles Boyd, aged twentyone, were sentenced for forgery and uttering and conspiracy to defraud. The former received eighteen months' reformatory treatment on one charge and was ordered to come up for sentence on the others, whilst Boyd was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment.