COURT NEWS

Grey River Argus, 2 May 1931, Page 2

COURT NEWS

• (Per Pi ess Association.) AI'CKLAND, May I. Yvonne Mar jury At lee Hunt, 2-1. was ! sentenced t (l three* months’ imprison- ' meni for obtaining goods worth £B, 'and rash £l7 by valueless cheques, j The police said that her method was 'to cash the cheque, nay a few pounds! Ito her bank credit, then cash another«to daw all but a few shillings. When ' ■ arrested she had five cheques written out. Last October, in Wanganui, she i had been granted probation and or-» |de red tu restore £69, but had failed. 1 O'tinsel said that her fami-y were* i highly respectable. Her mother was | f readv to take charge of her. Magistrate Hunt said that he could' | not pass over the offences. i DUNEDIN. May 1. ' I Prisoners were sentenced to-day at. pho Supreme Court, as follows:— ■“Leslie William Gibbons, th re'* cliTirges of breaking, entering a:u. > theft, one charge of breaking and en* ■ } taring. two charges of theft, two years J fin gaol and two* years' reformative | detention. Basil Charles Gibbous, two charges* of breaking, entering, two years’ re-i formative detention. William Arthur Hamilton. 34, indecently assaulting a boy, one year and nine months’ reformative detention. TIMARU. May 1. ’ At the Supreme Court, before Judge} ■ Adams. Thomas James Cox and John ) Hynry Fitzgerald, who were previously | . found guilty of manslaughter, by cans- ’ 1 ing the death of Robert Galvin Rahilly J jNesbitt, at Timaru on April (>, ware j foach sentenced to seven years’ im-j prisonment, with hard labour.