COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 February 1927, Page 9

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

SIX MONTHS FOR THEFT. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 5. For the theft of a gold chain :-.nd pendant, a silver-mounted flask, a gold mounted fountain pen, the total value of £IG Gs, George Fuller Quinn, aged 40, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by Mr Salmon, S.M. The articles gjvere the property of Joseph Leo Grant, with whom the accused shared a room at a boarding-hcaise. The 'Chief Detective' said that the accused had previously served six months’ imprisonment for theft and various terms for defaulting on a maintenance order. SENTENCES AT WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, Feb. Prisoners, as under, were sentenced bj( Sir Charles Skerrett at the Supreme Court to-day. Edward May, Erie Jones and Albert James Olsen, for receiving stolen silk, were sentenced to three years' hard labour. Raymond Neil Ward, for false pretences, was admitted to probation for two years and ordered to pay costs amounting to £l3 1.25. James Walter Houston, for forgery, uttering and false pretences, was given two years’ probation, was ordered to pay costs amounting to £8 4s, and to make restitution within .12 months.

.Tas. Junk, a labourer, aged 59, for an indecent act. was sentenced to 12 months’ hard labour.