PRISONERS SENTENCED

Evening Star, Issue 20328, 9 November 1929, Page 2

PRISONERS SENTENCED

[Per United Press , Association.]

AUCKLAND, November B._ Many prisoners were sentenced in tire Supreme Court to-day, Mr Justice I-lerdman, who had been engaged m a criminal trial, not finishing his task until to-night. Jessie Morris, aged 40, a dressmaker, for illegally using an instrument, was sentenced to four years’ hard labour, ,His Honour saying that ho had to take grave view ot the' case despite the fact that the probation officer had reported that prisoner was a kindly disposed woman. William Bobbett, aged 36, a labourer, for attempting to pervert the course of Justice by peisuading a woman witness to gwe false evidence the case against Jessie Morris, was sentenced to six mouths’ imprisonment. His Honour said ho had made the sentence lighter than he would have done had prisoner not borne a good character , previously. William Philip Payne, for the theft of £l6B as a servant, of the New Zealand Railways, was admitted to probation for two years. His Honour said the most' extraordinary thing ’about the case was that the prisoner had money to his credit. The police apparently accepted his statement that he borrowed the money on Saturday and intended to repay it on Monday. He had ample means to do this. Martin Charles M'Carthy, aged 66, for indecent assault on a little girl, was sentenced to eighteen months’ reformative detention. James M‘Donald and James Walsh, for receiving stolen furs, valued at £9O, were sentenced to eighteen' months’ hard labour. For three breaches of the Bankruptcy Act, John Gilbert Helleur, aged 25, was admitted to probation for two years. Arthur Douglas Wylie, aged 31, on one charge of theft and four of breaches of the Bankrupety Act, was sentenced to a total of eleven months' imprisonment.’