IN THE COURTS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11946, 17 May 1933, Page 7

IN THE COURTS

SEQUEL TO SHOOTING BY

WOMAN. ALLEGED BLACKMAILER . CONVICTED. : Press Associa'f ion .1 CHRISTCHURCH, May 16. Art echo'of the recent shooting case at the residence of Mrs. Myrtle Long, at Cashmere Hills, was heard by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., to-day, when Arthur Henry Way 53, a salesman was charged with being without lawful excuse on the premises of Airs. Long. He was convicted and ordered to come up for .sentence if called on, special conditions being attached. Mrs. Long gave evidence that Way pc she red and blackmailed her, and she shot hint when ho refused in. go. T.NTTMTD ATT ON BY REVOLVER BHOTR . TWO YEARS’ REFORMATIVE. (Brest Ass nop i non. > AUCKLAND, May 16. Colin Alfred Jensen, 25, who fired revolver shots at night through a window of the house of a family named Broad, near Te Puke, was sentenced to-day to two years’ reformative detention. The judge found the accused guilty of intimidation bv night. ALLEGED WOUNDING WfTTT KNIFE YOUTH REA LA NDED . I*iv*s« Association ASHBURTON, A lay !fi. Robert. Henry Aleanlem, 2), a laborer, was remanded to Friday on a charge of assaulting David Hammil, 48, causing bodily harm. Tt was alleged that laic on Saturday night Alcaclem. meeting Hammil on the street, engaged in an altercation, finally producing a knife, inflicting several wounds, not of a serious nature, bui necessitating Hammil -spending a day or so in bed.

It is understood that Meacle.m, who is on probation, objected to HannniVs attention to a young woman.

FRAUD ON FARMER THREE YEARS FOR’ CONFIDENCE MAN ADVISED TO LEAVE N.Z. A FTER. RELEASE (Press Association : AUCKLAND, May 16. Jack Walker, 32, a salesman, was sentenced to-day Ho three years’ imprisonment for conspiring to defraud a farmerMr Justice Smith, before sentencing him, read a from the Vancouver police describing the accused as a card sharper and a coin match er. It is quite clear that he had practised as a confidence man The sum involved in the conspiracy was £SBO, of which the accused alleged that- he got only £lB2. a The accused had told a detective that he thought New Zealand a groat little Country, and that there was n lot of money to he made in Rotorua by a couple- of good men , "but T would want .a little protection. We would give you 5 per cent, and guarantee that, iwe would take on visitors and) never touch Now Zealanders. The judge added: "When you wt out of gaol, it would bo as well for vou to leave the country.”