SENTENCED FOR CRIME

Evening Star, Issue 22576, 18 February 1937, Page 10

SENTENCED FOR CRIME

WELLINGTON [Pee United Pksss Association.] WELLINGTON, February 18. The folio wing prisoners, were sen. fenced by Sir M. Myers, C.J.:— Herbert Henry Ash (20), a machine ist, breaking and entering with intent, and breach of probation, three years in the Borstal. Clarence Albert Butterfield .(S3), a cabinetmaker, breaking, entering, and theft, 12 months. Leslie Knopp (27), a storeman, breaking, entering, and theft, two years’ probation. Mary Isabella Christina Laloli (S 4), a domestic, bigamy, two years’ probation. Robert Brownlie (45), a clerk, theft of £593 2s lOd as servant, of the Tahunanui Town Board, 18 months’ 'reformative detention.. ' . Donald Thomas BeU (20) j a , store, man, and James Harimgtph (JJ5)j jointly charged, with breaking, entering, and. theft, two years’ probation. William Arnold. Sinclair (45).. a labourer, ; bigamy (an 11-yeats-old offence), six months with hard-labour. GISBORNE A sentence of two years with hard labour was " imposed by Mr J ustice Ostler this on William M'Kinnon, a mercantile agent, who pleaded guilty to 17 charges of forgery, uttering, and theft, said by his counsel to be the result of frenzied betting in an endeavour, to .recoup previous losses..; A Maori, Thomas Faumea -Clarke, pleading; guilty to an assault in tha early hours of the morning upon another, Maori whom he discovered ..with the woman to., whom he was married in Maori fashion, was admitted to probation for a year, conditional om paying the cost of. the prosecution. . : : For - indecent . assault on a girl Thomas Matenga, who was found guilty yesterday,’ was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour. Two Maori youths, George Waititi and Mahuika Allison, found! guilty of common assault on two women ■at Raukokore, were admitted to probation for a year, Waititi being omered to pay £2O towards the costs of theprosecution, which totalled £46, His Honour commenting that they ' were the heaviest in. his experience. Only the fact that the victims were women and not girls, and that the jury, acquitted the accused on - the major counts-and recommended mercy, saved tie prisoners from a gaol sentence.