SUPREME COURT.
JUDGE PRAISES POLICE. Per Press Association. HAMILTON, Aug. 22. The following prisoners were sentenced in the Supremo Court by Mr Justice Callan to-day: —Ernest Edwin Newton, aged 22, and Graham Wilfred Morton, aged 24, breaking and entering and theft at Waharoa, three years’ hard labour, while Don Rudolph Melrose, aged 23, who pleaed guilty to participation in the same series of offences was sentenced to two years and six months’ hard labour; John Henry Wilson, aged 23, found guilty of receiving stolen goods, two years’ hard labour; Leslie Jack Davis, aged 24 breaking and entering and theft, three years’ hard labour. . His Honour remarked: I wish to sav publicly that, in my judgment, the conducting - of the investigations in both these cases by the police has been highly creditable. Ibe police have served society well. This should be a warning to others that it does not pay to prey on society. Elsie Clara Howie, aged 44. of Taumarunui, found guilty, with J recommendation to mercy, of keeping and selling Uauor in a proclaimed
area was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment,- and William James Blackman, of Taumarunui, similarly charged, to five months’ imprisonment.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 227, 23 August 1935, Page 13
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194SUPREME COURT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 227, 23 August 1935, Page 13
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