SUPREME COURT
SENTENCES AT WELLINGTON. LETTER SENT TO EXTORT MONEY i(Per Press Association— Copyright.) 4- .f ; WELLINGTON, March 10. In,.Hie Supreme Court this morning pfjkasffi’s were sentenced by His Honour, SMrt Justice Reed, as fbllows: — Edwin, Edwards, indecent assault cn a nude, three' charges, two years’ imprisonment, concurrent, to be, followed by a year’s reformative. Rolvt. William Reay, breaking and entering, and theft, two years’ hard labour. James Cunningham Parker, and James Edward White, breaking and entering, and theft, 12 months’ hard labour.'
Marsh; Kaimoana, breaking and entering, and theft at Wairoa, 12 months’ reformative detention.
His .Honour remarked that this prisoner was an educated Maori, who attributed tbe lapses to liquor. He would lie well advised to leave it alone.
Frederick Howard Davis, causing jj person to receive' a letter with intent to extort money, three years' probation, accused to pay the cosrtof the prosecution 255, and to lie debarred from attending picture shows for a year.
His Honour.mentioned the prisoner’s youth, and said that the probation officer gave a. good character. The bombastic language in the letter satisfied His Honour that the prisoner should be treated as ..haying the ''mental capacity of a child who had been allowed to attend too many-‘‘gangster.’*, pictures.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1933, Page 6
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