SUPREME COURT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 August 1925, Page 9

SUPREME COURT.

FIVE YEARS FOR BEST

(BY TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION AUCKLAND, August 5.

At the Supreme Court Albert Edward Best, aged i!6, foir the attempted murder of iiis sister, was' sentenced to five years’ hard labour. Judge Herdman said his only course was to impose a substantial term.' If Best liad exercised a little more pressure with the razor the girl would nave been killed instantaneously. To some extent the prisoner was inflamed with drink, and on account of this and his youth the sentence was fighter than otherwise. AUCKLAND-, August 5. The following prisoners were sentenced at the Supreme- Court: — George Thomas Nelson, aged 24, three years’ reformative detention, to be concarrent with his present sentence, for breach of the terms of his probation; Edward Arnold Chartis, three years’ probation for unlawful carnal knowledge of an imbecile woman;' Boy Martin, aged 22, to two years’ hard labour for indecent assault on a girl; Morris Mc-Au-hffe, for breaking, entering and theft, two years’ -probation ; John Davies, a prisoner with a record for false pretences, two years’ hard labour; Henry Albert Print, for making a fraudulent statement under the P. and T. Act, was fined £10; Alexander Rea, Bernard Brummel and Gordon Wildeiincth, for breaking, entering md theft, reformative treatment, not exceeding two years; \Yi'liam John Howe, for receiving stolen goods, two years’ probation ; John Johnson, for breaking and entering with intent, two years’ imprisonment; Eli Mitchell, for false pretences, two years’ probation: Lewis Asher, alias Anderson, on twelve charges of false pretences, two years imprisonment; Alfred Ireland, for false -pretences, two years’ imprisonment; James Reginald Reece, on eight charges of theft of postal packets, two years’ probation, owing to his youth and physic-tall. condition; Frederick •Theodore Desmond Ponlton, for forgery, littering and theft, two years hard labour; Harold Markwick, for false pretences, six months’ hard labour; Cyril Matthew Cullman and Arthur Alexander Watson, for unlawful carnal knowledge of a giii under 16, twelve months’ probation, owing to the girl’s behaviour; Thomas Richmond Porter, on five charges of false pretences, eighteen months’ imprisonment. SENTENCES AT~WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, Aug. 5. Raleigh Ginsberg, who recently pleaded guilty to 24 charges of theft, in connection* with cash fidelity bonds, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment at the Supreme Court to-day. Mi- Justice Ostler said that prisoner had deliberately adopted the career of a professional swindler, and had become what wa.s known in the criminal world as a confidence trickster. The evidence showed that he used the money for his own purposes, no doubt on gambling and riotous living. Alfred Lewis Albert Seyihour, for indecent assault, was sentenced 1 to five years’ imprisonment. John Muir, for theft of £SO from slot telephones, was admitted to probation for two years. Edwin Cowie, for breaking and entering, was nut on probation for one year.