SUPREME COURT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 15 October 1914, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON, Oct. 14. Six prisoners were sentenced by the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, at the Supreme Court today. Claude Batt, on two charges of forgery at Palmerston and one charge of forgery at Masterton, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on. each charge, to be, concurrent; Archibald Wilfred Rawles for breaking, entering and theft at Stratford, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment; John Johnston, alias Robert Lemon, with six previous con-5 victions for various offences, was sentenced to 18 months on a charge of breaking and entering .and theft at Palmerston; Herbert Henry Barrington, on four charges of breaking and entering and theft, at Stratford, and two further charges of theft at Stratford, received 12 months on each charge, sentences to be concurrent; Edward M. Kenna, on three charges of forgery and uttering at Hastings received 18 months on each charge, to be concurrent; and James Little for assaulting an aged Chinese in Courteney Place recently, was sentenced fco two years' imprisonment, to be followed by four years' reformative, treatment, the Judge remarking that he had -acted ;in a cowardly and blackguardly manner.