COURT NEWS

Grey River Argus, 18 May 1938, Page 8

COURT NEWS

BOUTEREY CASE Sentence of Two Years [Per Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, May 17. Prisoners were sentenced in the Supreme Court to-day by Mr. Justice Northcroft. Anthony George Bouterey, for subornation of perjury, received a term or two years’ hard labour. Edward Dardanell de Malmanche, for house-breaking and theft, was admitted to two years’ probation. PRISONERS SENTENCED. CHRISTCHURCH, May 17. The following prisoners were today sentenced by Judge Northcroft: Albert Edward Lindeloff. for burglary and assault, causing bodily harm, was sentenced Io 12 months’ imprisonment, and to 18 months' hard labour, the sentences to be concurrent. George Marks, for carnal knowledge, received 12 months’ hard labour. Frederick Eggelton, foi> <in unnatural offence, was sentenced' to two years’ reformative detention. John Alfred Rhodes, for false pretences, was convicted and discharged. Colin Walter Henry ScHiavi, for carnal knowledge, received four months’ hard labour. THEFT OF SHEEP. FOR DISTRESSED FAMILIES. CHRISTCHURCH, May 17. At the Supreme Court to-day, four men appeared for sentence on a charge of stealing sheep. They were Stamley Dudley Keats, Clarence Burnaby, Maurice Roy Beaven, and Stanley Frederick Robert Scott. They were admitted to three years' probation.

His Honour. Judge Northcroft, said he did not propose to discriminate among these persons. Charges of sheep stealing were difficult to detect. and were rc®irded as serious. It was rare for meTi to be placed on probation for this offence, and, were it not ior the sympathetic report of the Probation Officer, he would not think of admitting these persons to probation. As it was, they had stolen to relieve the needs of their distressed families, and, though it must not be taken that he condoned stealing by families in such circumstances, he proposed to take the unusual, but merciful, course of placing them on probation.

Christchurch Thefts EIGHT MEN SENTENCED. CHRISTCHURCH, May 17. At the Supreme Court to-day, Judge Northcroft imposed sentences as follows: — Hugh Lowther, for receiving stolen property, received two years’ hard labour. Tom Hazard, John _ Searle, Kawei Arthur Wilkinson, Herbert Francis Hempenstall, Harold Thomas Stringer, Herbert Arthur Currie, and Harold Herbert Stackhouse, for theft of goods, were each sentenced to six months’ hard labour. • BOOKMAKER CONVICTED. GISBORNE, May 17. A fine of £3O was imposed on James ;S. Hickey, on a bookmaking charge ' He pleaded guilty. PRISONERS SENTENCED. WANGANUI, May 17. At. the Supreme Court, this mornilng, Dardanelles Paranihi, charged I with having broken the terms of his 1 probation, was sentenced by Mr Jus tice Blair to reformative treatment for three years. William Patrick Doody, who plead ed guilty to four charges of indecent assault on males, was ordered to come ' up for sentence if called upon within three years, certain conditions bein | Imposed. I John Patrick Kenny, 44, labourer was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention on two charges of attempted incest. i | FINES FOR INTOXICATED, I GISBORNE, May 17. I A seaman, named Timaru William i Joss, was fined £l5, and his license 'was cancelled for two years, for being intoxicated when in charge of a 1 rar. He was arrested after a nigh I chase by a barman and the police, following the breaking of a window in an hotel. A HAMILTON CASE. HAMILTON, May 16. “When a motorist has a cold, it is better that he should have aspirins and hot lemon rather than liquor in hotel,” remarked the Magistrate Mr Paterson, in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, in fining Raymond Francis Stites, a van driver, of Cambridge, £25 for intoxication in charge of a motor vehicle.

It was shown by the police that the defendant, in an endeavour to cure a cold, had four drinks of rum in a hotel, and was noticed by a constable walking unsteadily to his van. In imposing the fine, the Magistrate took into account the defendan’ts previous good record and did not direct the cancellation of his license.