TERMS OF DETENTION AND PROBATION
,(P.A.) WELLINGTON. April 6. Seven prisoners were sentenced by Mr. Justice Gresson in the Supreme Court today. On 15 charges of breaking and enterand theft, Norman Leslie Ruby, aged 31, painter, was sentenced to reformative detention for 12 months.
Having pleaded guilty to bigamy, Rebecca Susanah McNaughton was admitted to probation for one year.
Sentences of reformative detention for 12 months for bigamy and six months’ reformative detention for theft were imposed on Ronald George Lippiatt, aged 29. marine engineer. Probation for two years was granted John Clifford Kershaw, aged 44, clerk, for stealing a sum of money from the totalisator at Trentham racecourse. Mervyn Langdon Jetson, aged 28, rabbiter, was admitted to probation for 12 months for shop-breaking. Sentences of 12 months’ reformative detention to be served concurrently were imposed on Harry Gordon, aged 23. seaman, for breaking the terms of his probation, forging a cheque for £75 and breaking, and entering with theft. Richard Stanley Wratten, aged 27, labourer, who appeared with Gordon, was sentenced to reformative detention for two years on two charges of forgery and one of shop-breakin2.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22916, 7 April 1949, Page 2
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