PRISONERS SENTENCED

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 November 1931, Page 10

PRISONERS SENTENCED

CHRISTCHURCH DECISIONS. [MB PBESB ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, November 2. The following prisoners were sentenced by Judge Adams: — Frederick Ashley Neale, a land dealer, failure to keep proper books, three months’ imprisonment. Ernest Couper Smith, 46, theft of goods valued at £968, while acting as a company manager; admitted to probation for two years and ordered to make restitution.

James Thomas Toomey, 35, formerly a teller in the Post and Telegraph Department, theft of Government money, three years' reformative detention. Leonard Rees Wilkinson, breach of probation, two years’ imprisonment on the original charges of breaking and entering. Arthur Edwin Hall, carnal knowledge, three months’ imprisonment. Edward John Barkle, indecent as-

sault on male, committed to an Inebriates house, for a year. Murdoch Kenneth Camapbell, a former employee of the Post and Telegraph Department, theft of £5 Government moneys, one year’s probation. NEW TRIAL GRANTED. Washington Irving Carney, a woolbroker, convicted of contracting a debt of £l7 without reasonable expectation of ability to pay, also appeared for sentence, but sentence was postponed as the Crown applied for a new trial on a charge of bringing about bankruptcy by extravagant living on which the jury disagreed last week. Judge Adams agreed, and the new trial begins to-morrow.