PRISONERS SENTENCED

Evening Star, Issue 19126, 18 December 1925, Page 6

PRISONERS SENTENCED

DEFRAUDING WOMEN [Pku United Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, December 18. The following prisoners wore -sentenced in the Supremo Court by Air Justice MacGregor to-day

Rupert Goorgo Bell, a youth, was sent to tho Borstal Institute at Invercargill for a period nob exceeding loinyears on four charge? of false pretences and theft; John Henry Wall, for theft of a horse and bridle, received twelve months, with hard labor; Clifford Joseph Moore, twelve months’ imprisonment, with hard labor, on seven charges of forgery and one charge of false pretence. William Phillips was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, with hard labor (concurrent), on four charges of fake pretences and theft. Mr Macassey, the Crown Prosecutor, described Phillips as a confirmed criminal and a menace to society. He stated that Phillips served three years in Auckland In 1922 for the theft of £2OO from a woman, and from another woman in Wellington, who did. not prosecute on account of dislike of publicity, he had obtained £4OO. His Honor referred to Phillips’s list of previous _ convictions, starting _ in 1896, ami said the offences were just the kind against which soeify should Bo protected. The police report stated that tho man made a practice of defrauding women. Ho declared Phillips an habitual criminal.