WANTON ABUSES OF TRUST

Evening Star, Issue 19722, 24 November 1927, Page 9

WANTON ABUSES OF TRUST

HEAVY SENTENCE-IMPOSED JPee United Pkess Association.] WELLINGTON, November 24. Donald M’Leod Wilson, aged 34, who pleaded guilty to the theft of £537 from Kirkcaklie and Stains, came before Sir Charles Skerrett (Chief Justice) in the Supreme Court for sentence. His Honor considered that prisoner had wantonly abused the consideration shown when he had taken money on a previous occasion and had been reinstated. He imposed a sentence of tour years’ reformative detention. Harry Stephen Liversage, who pleaded guilty to the theft of £4,804 from Joseph Nathan and Co., also camo up for sentence. His Honor said that for seven years prisoner had been guilty of constant defalcations. Tho thefts were systematic, lie remarked, and these offences were becoming far too common. Ho frankly told prisoner that he did not believe his statement that he began tbo -peculations to conceal the loss of certain sums, and he sentenced him to prison and ordered him to be the subject of reformative treatment for a period not exceeding four years. Frederick Henry Bowley (43), breaking, entering, and theft, received two years, with bard labor; Thomas Douglas Forsyth, aged 20, on a like charge, three years in the Borstal.