CRIMINAL SESSIONS

Evening Star, Issue 18669, 25 June 1924, Page 6

CRIMINAL SESSIONS

AUCKLAND. Lewis Weeks Byron was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for indecent assaults on males. Judge Stringer said that piisoncr admitted having been sentenced for similar offences in the past. Prisoner expressed his willingness to undergo surgical treatment. “I have no power to order it,” added the judge. ‘‘l wish I had. A Commission is silting on this subject, and it may bo that it will find some better moans of dealing with cases of your kind.” William Webb Pullman, aged thirty-throe, for breaking and entering and theft of a mattress, who had lost his position in the railway service, was admitted to two years’ prooation. Walter Eric Harland, aged twenty-two years (nine charges of breaking and entering and theft, and breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime), was sentenced to two years’ reformative treatment. Thomas Foster Howaith (six charges of theft of Government money as a postal O’i'ocr) was sentenced to two vrars’ imprisonment. Percy (deary (two charges of breaking and entering) was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment GJAAOIvNE. Hilton Crossweil, for breaking and entering and for indecently assaulting a woman ninety-one years of age, was sentenced to reformative treatment for three years, the judge remarking that ho was satisfied the prisoner was not of normal mentality, mid that he should be handed over to the Prison Board. Nelson Jeffcolc Horne and Gwynne Yates, for theft and false pretences, were each sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. William Edward llullavant, for making a false declaration of marriage, was lined £lO.