PRISONERS SENTENCED IN WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT

Evening Star, Issue 26136, 25 June 1947, Page 6

PRISONERS SENTENCED IN WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, June. 25. • A. number of prisoners came before Mr Justice Cornish in the Supreme Court yesterday for sentence. Harvey Ashworth, 34, bootmaker, who had pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and theft, four charges of theft, and unlawful conversion of motor cars at Lower Hutt and Rotorua, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with bard labour on each charge, the terms' to he concurrent. John Laird Taylor, 24, clerk,- was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment with hard labour on six charges of falsa pretences and theft at Nelson, including the theft of a diamond ring valued at £SO. . ’v f,i Leonard John Paine, 29, aircraftman, who had pleaded guilty to;' the theft of £578 7s 6d while acting ‘as secretary of the R.N.Z.A.F. sergeants’ mess at Shelley Bay, Wellington, Twas sentenced to 18 months’ reformative detention. , _ . ‘. “ This was a very serious crime - of violence,” said His- Honour in sentencing Graeme .Bruce Reyburn,' ,22* labourer, for assaulting a Chinese, with intent to rob him, and also for breaking and entering and theffe:t-vTha prisoner was sentenced •to two’-years’ imurisonment with .hard labour, to be followed, by 12 months’ reformative detention. ' .