COURT NEWS

Grey River Argus, 2 August 1935, Page 5

COURT NEWS

CHRISTCHURCH THEFT CASES. CHRISTCHURCH? AugLst 1. <r Aou planned and executed a deliberate raid upon society, and your record would indicate you decided to f’mbark on a life of crime. ’’ said Judge Northcroft, in the Supreme Court to-day, in sentencing Albert William Gauntlet to throe vears’ inirvisonmcnt for breaking and entering Hav’s. Ltd., and stealing £470. Ralph Crosby, alias Trevor Foate •who was associated with Gauntlet, was sen f eneed to two years’ reformative detention. Frederick George Cox was sentenced to nine months’ reformative detention for theft from his employers, Niven and C 0... for whom he was accountant. WELLINGTON THEFT SENTENCES WELLINGTON August 1. Prisoners were sentenced to-day by Chief Justice Mver<- as follows:— Patrick Joseph O’Connor, two years’ probation, for theft, committed in 1932. Kenneth Wiliam Mailman, three rears’ reformative detention: and Earle Dodds, three vears at Borstal, breaking, entering and theft, at Wanganui. Kingi Wniri. breaking, entering and ’heft and attempted ditto, two years’ reformative detention. TTn'are P*hu Tan gi tutu three years at Bnrsta l , for breaking, entering and ‘heft, at Ruatoria. Samuel Rogers, for a similar crime, two vears at Borstal. Ronald St. Clair Owen, breaking, entering and theft, th rep years’ reformative detention. After sentencing the todnv. Chief Justice Mvors said ho no'ieof| that out of seven prisoners sentenced. no fervor than four alroadv *»-rT h«d n term pr Borstal. Tt wa c vor V dcnress’n<r to see them come before that Court and certainly gave food for reflection.

A 1931 TRAIN ROBBERY. MAN ACQUITTED. (Received August 1 at 9.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 1. The trial concluded to-dav of Joseph Rvan on a charge of stealing ten thousand pounds in hank notes, from a Canberra mail train on Mav 1. in the vear 1931. Over seven thousand pounds wore recovered bv the police some time later. It was buried in a country fowl yard. The jury returned a verdict of not guiltv. Ryan, who absented himself for some time after the robbery, returned some time ago. and informed the police that he had earlier been unable to clear himself from suspicion in the matter, but was now able to do so.

N.Z. Painter EXTRADITION FROM SYDNEY. (Received August 1 at 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY. August 1. At the police court Herbert Howard, or Herbert Lawrence Handley, aged 40 vears, a -winter and decorator, was charged, by a provisional warrant, with having at Wellington, tl committed an offence of false pretence.” Detective Spencer, of Wellington, said tht?,t Howard had escaped from oustedv b?/ Februarv 18, 1933, while being taken bv train from Auckland to another town. The Court ordered Howard to be handed over to the custody of Detective Spencer for return to New Zealand