PRISONERS SENTENCED.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 131, 26 May 1921, Page 5

PRISONERS SENTENCED.

CRIME IN AUCKLAND. Auckland, May 25. The Supreme Court imposed the following sentences of reformative treatment to-day:— John Gibson, breaking and entering at Maungaturoto, not exceeding five years; Claude Alexander Basil Morten, assault, not exceeding six mon ms ; James Joseph Mallory Ross, theft, six months-Eric R. Marcroft, theft at Cambridge, not exceeding three years; Samuel M. Frank, indecent assault, not exceeding three years. Terms of probation were fixed as follows:—Jessie Meeke, theft from a shop, five years, with a bond of good behaviour for two years; May Gibson, a sister of John Gibson, breaking and entering, three years; Donald Peter McGaskill, assault, three years; Charles Tucker, theft from the person, three years; John Brittain, false pretences, three years; Trevor Napier Peake, theft from employers, three years; Thomas Edward Blong, theft of Lodge funds, three years; Joseph Jesse Clark, theft and failure to account for moneys, five years; Ngatiau Niho, breaking and entering, and theft at Te Awamutu, two years; Manuel .Valoor, indecent assault on a male, five years; Margaret Metcalfe, attempted arson at the Door of Hope Institution, four years; Freda Hutchinson, the ringleader in the Door of Hope case, was committed to a reeeiving home. In many cases restitution was ordered : also payment of the costs of the prosecution.