PRISONERS SENTENCED
PENALTIES AT CHRISTCHURCH. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, February 14. In the Supreme Court to-day, Mr Justice Adams sentenced prisoners who had either pleaded guilty or been found guilty after trial. John Alfred Holliday, for theft of postal packets (two charges) and housebreaking and theft (two charges) was committed to the Borstal Institute. William Charles Lidgett, described as an old offender, for breaking and entering and theft (two charges) received two years’ imprisonment. Leo Peter Kelly, for breaking and entering and theft (six charges) was ordered three years’ detention at the Borstal. Alfred Saunders Webster, for common assault on a female, was given imprisonment for four months from the date of his taken into custody. On a similar charge George Gil;pin Pickens was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 February 1930, Page 2
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