PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 316, 31 January 1922, Page 5

PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME.

SUPREME COURT SENTENCES. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 31. At the Supremo Court to-day. before Mr Justice- Hosking, Ernest William Lowthcr lor forgery and uttering al Palmerston North was sentenced to one year's hard labour. Charles Amies for bigamy was lined G 25 or throe months' imprisonment. James Edwards lor thel't Al Waipukurau was sentenced to one year, to commence at. the expiry ol the sentence he is now serving. John William Cooke and Harry Newall for breaking and entering the railway station at Seddon were placed on probation for two and a-half years and ordered to repay C2 5s each and pay the costs of the prosecution. James Healey. for mischief at Taihape, where he broke windows valued at aboui L'l7. and who had been in gaol three times for similar offences, was sentenced to one month and ordered to pay C2o at the rate of 10s per month. William Limmerman for a lalse declaration under the Marriage Act at Stratford was sentenced lo N days imprisonment. Charles Edward Wei go I lor indecent assault on a male at Watiganni was sentenced to seven years. " Donald Grey for false pretences was sentenced to nine months' hard labour. Francis Douglas Still, Matthew Dickson and Ivor Harwood, three youths, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and theft". Dickson and Still were sentenced to two years' reformative treatment and Harwood was admitted to probation for three years.