SUPREME COURT

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1932, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

CH.CII. PRISONERS SENTENCED

[per press association.]

CHRISTCHURCH, October 28. (Prisoners were sentenced to-day by Justice Ostler: —

Mori’is Blaxall, 39, jeweller, obtaining money by false pretences, six charges, three months’ hard labour. The Judge said: “1 believe you really thought you could not be touched by the law, but I also believe you knew you were doing a mean trick.” Prisoner had made medals with a silver core and a coating of gold, and sold them as solid gold. Gordon Webb Hazeldine, burglaries and theft, three years’ reformative detention. The Crown Prosecutor said that Hazeldine was an exceedingly dangerous man, who had for a long period made a considerable income by theft, and boasted of it. Herbert Edwin Barnsley, seven charges of forging receipts (in connection with unemployment relief), three months’ hard labour. WELLINGTON DECISIONS. WELLINGTON, October 28. Prisoners were sentenced by Justice MacGregor: — George Frederick Murphy, breaking, entering, theft and receiving, two years’ hard labour. . George Ngarimu, assault, 12 months’ hard labour, followed by two years’ reformative detention.

Clarence Frank Ross, breaking, entering, and theft, and vagrancy, two years’ and one year’s imprisonment respectively, concurrent.

Albert Henry O’Malley, uttering counterfeit coin, six months’ imprisonment.

Thomas Fearon, receiving, two years’ imprisonment. Chester Lincoln Nazelrod, receiving, two years’ imprisonment.

Alexander Herd, breaking, entering, and theft, IS months’ imprisonment. John George Furey, receiving, two years’, concurrent with a sentence he is at present serving.