PRISONERS SENTENCED

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1929, Page 2

PRISONERS SENTENCED

PENALTIES AT AUCKLAND.

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, November 8. Many prisoners were sentenced in the Supreme Court to-day, Judge Herdman, who had been engaged in the criminal trials, not finishing the task until to-night. Jessie Morris, aged 40, a dressmaker, for illegally using an instrument, was sentenced to four years’ hard labour. The Judge said that he had to take a grave view of the case, despite the fact that the Probation Officer reported that the prisoner was a kindly disposed woman. ' William Bobgett, aged 36, a labourer, for attempting to pervert the course of justice by persuading a woman witness to give false evidence in the case against Jessie M ori ’is, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. The Judge said he had made the sentence lighter than he otherwise would have done had the prisoner not borne a good character previously. William Philip Payne, for theft of £l6B as a servant of the New Zealand Railways, was admitted to probation for two years. ' The Judge 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 McCarthy, aged 66, for indecent assault on a little girl, was sentenced to eighteen months’ reform-, ative detention. James MacDonald and James W. Lash, 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 34, on one charge of theft and four of breaches of the Bankruptcy Act, was sentenced to a total of eleven months’ imprisonment.