COURTS AND OFFENCES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 26 August 1926, Page 9

COURTS AND OFFENCES

. FORGERY AND THEFT. (by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 26.

At the, Supreme Court William Alexander Burrell, guilty of forgery and horse stealing, was sentenced to two years’ hard labour, to begin .at the expiration of the sentence the prisoner is now serving. t MONEY MTS APIPB OPR lATED. WELLINGTON, Aug. 26. Failure to account for sums totalling £l3 6s Old, thereby committing theft, was .admitted by Geo. Edward Sullivan (24) at the Magistrate’,s Court. The accused was employed by Charles Edward Bell in delivering bread. The Chief Detective said that when questioned by Bell the accused acknowledges the misappropriation. Fie was given the opportunity to repay 10s, per week to avoid a prosecution. He commenced repayments, but at the .same time took other money, hence, the prosecution. The magistrate, remanded the case to consider an application for probation.

SENTENCES AT INVERCARGILL.

INVERCARGILL, Aug. 26

“If a thief desires to obtain probation, he should approach the court in the proper spirit of penitence,” sai_d Mr Justice Sim in sentencing John F. Walsh, ex-town clerk of Mat a urn, to three years’ reformative; treatment for theft of borough funds. “He lias not done that; ho. has had! the. impudence to deny his guilt and has gone into the witness box and committed perjury in support of his defence; he has also made a most unfounded: suggestion against a young lady employed in his office. If the accused, had shown the proper spirit and had pleaded guilty, I would have been glad to consider t he recommendation of the probation officer, but in the. circumstances the prisoner’s ill-advised; course in defending has placed himself beyond; consideration in connection with, probation.” Andrew Amos, a married man, was found guilty of assaults on two girls under twelve and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for carnal knowledge, and one year on each of five charges of indecent assault, making ten years in all.

LADY STUART FORRES ,MAINTENANCE! CASE.

WELLINGTON, Aug. 26. In. the Lady Stuart Forbes maintenance ease l to-day, the 1 Magistrate, Mr. Page, ksaid lie felt that Mrs. Remviok’s offer to place the* throe children, now with the mother and the man, Thompson, in a, convent at Nelson, should be given effect to, but Mrs. Ren wick’s consent would first have to be proved in court . Ho adjourned the matter so that this arrangement cpnld be carried out.