PENALTY OF CRIME

Evening Star, Issue 18045, 12 August 1922, Page 3

PENALTY OF CRIME

TWO YEARS FOR BAG THIEF, [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, August 12. The following prisoners were sentenced in the Supreme Court this morning by the Chief Justice:— Daniel Joseph Madden Lane and John O’Brien, for robbery with violence, each two years with hard labor, and Lane was declared an habitual criminal. James Joseph Willoughby, theft of a bag containing £l4O, two years’ reformative treatment. George Leslie Cookson, theft of £l4O from an hotel safe, three years’ reformative ' treatment. Spencer Ernest Walter Farrell, theft of £67 and forgery, three years’ probation, conditional on his making restitution. Douglas Hector Shanks and Charles Bennett, theft of a sheep at Otaki, three years’ reformative treatment. AUCKLAND OFFENDERS. AUCKLAND, August ,12. In the Supreme Court Thomas Edward Barron, for breaking, entering, and theft, was admitted to two years’ probation; Charles Murray Thompson, theft of £3OO, was granted probation; Charles Alpe Healey, fraud in a film venture, three years reformative detention; William Preston, bag-snatch-ing, was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon.