SUPREME COURT.
PRISONERS SENTENCED. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 28. For forging a cheque, William Oliver Russell was sentenced to-day to two years’ hard labour, and lie was declared an habitual criminal. In answer to a question, the prisoner said lie had been out of gaol only a few days when he committed tire last crime. “Society must be protected from this sort of thing,” said His Honour, Mr Justice Reed. For housebreaking and theft, Kenneth Joyce Murray was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and Percy John Irving to eighteen months’ imprisonment. James Baden Hamilton Pett, who pleaded guilty to the theft of corrugated iron valued at £9OO from his employers, was sentenced to two years' reformative treatment. Mr Justice Reed said that the prisoner appeared to have had sufficient salary, and to have lost the proceeds of his thefts in gambling.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 285, 30 October 1933, Page 10
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