SUPREME COURT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 23 February 1922, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

PRISONERS SENTENCED

(BY TELEGRAPH P]TF*S A&SOCIATIOX.J AUCKLAND, Feb. 22. At the Supreme Court Peter Colombo, on two charges of false pretences, was sentenced to twelve months in gaol, and was again declared an habitual criminal. The prisoner had previously been twice declared an habitual criminal and released on probationary license. Henry 6. Arnold, for breaking and entering and theft, was sentenced to six months, and Ronald Watts, who admitted selling his employer'%?sti§ek and making away with the proceeds while employed as a farm manager, was admitted to probation for two years, and was ordered to make such restitution as the probation officer directs. Charles Gumby Pearce, a former Post and Telegraph employee, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for false pretences by presenting bogus accounts for telephone repairs. i A year's imprisonment was imposed on Rae Solomon, a Maori., for the theft of a horse, saddle, and bridle at Kawakawa.