DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 November 1925, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS.

SUPREME COURT AT WELLINGTON. (by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 25. At the Supreme Court to-day, prisoners were sentenced by Judge Alpers. Frederick Emanuel Simmiss, of Tasmania, for forgery and uttering at Waipukurau, and who had a long record of dishonesty, received two years’ hard labour, Tboam Christian Jensen, for forgery and uttering and setting fire to timber, was admitted to probation for three years, and ordered to repay the money obtained by the forgery; Richard Ambrose Keleher, on two charges of false pretences and cashing valueless cheques in hotels while drunk, was given one year qn probation; Robert Austin Shearn, for breaking, entering and theft, was ordered reformative detention for two years; Isaac Boyes Greer, aged 40, for indecent assault on a male, was ordered reformative detention for two years; Mervyn John Cudby and Roy George Cudby, for breaking and theft, each received three years’ imprisonment.

MAN BURNT TO DEATH. INVERCARGILL, Nov. 25. Alexander Stewart, aged 36, a single man, was burned to death in a liut at Winton this morning. Deceased was a sawmill hand and occupied a hut with his brother, who escaped the flames. KERR RECEIVES THREE YEARS.

NEAV PLYMOUTH, Nov. 25,

In the Supreme Court William Kerr, ex-manager of the Union Bank at Stratford, who pleaded guilty to fiftyfour charges of theft, forgery and falsifying hooks, and who was found guilty of obtaining £3OO by false pretences from H. AY. Barlow, was sentenced to three • years ’ hard labour. Leslie Cranston McCormick, aged 17, pleaded guilty on seven charge of indecent assault on boys and was sen fenced to five years’ detention in the Borstal Institute. THEFT CHARGES ADMITTED. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 25. Charles Augustus Jones, who escaped from Paparua prison in October, pleaded guilty this morning to light charges of burglary, involving goods worth £l7O. He was committed for sentence to the Supreme. Court.