SUPREME COURT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 29 October 1928, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

DUNEDIN SESSIONS

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

DUNEDIN, This Day. In the Supreme Court Clarence Wilfred Dudley, 39, married, was sentenced to eighteen months’ reformative detention for indecently assaulting a young girlCharles Campbell, Edward George Ludwig, and Ronald Francis Montgomey, for breaking and entering by night with intent, were ordered to pay the costs of prosecution, take out prohibition orders, and come up for sentence if called on within twelve months.

In the case against Bertie Williams, who pleaded guilty in the Lower Courtto indecently assaulting a male, counsel asked that the plea be reversed to not guilty under the Medical Defectives Act. The application was granted and the accused will now go for trial. WELLINGTON SESSIONS • WELLINGTON, This Day. In the Supreme Court Kenneth Jack Fryer, 19, for breaking and entering and theft at Ilawera, was sentenced to two years in a Borstal institution; a prisoner, aged 19, whose name was suppressed, two years’ probation for forging his father’s name to a, cheque; Paul Ludwig Ernest Franck, 48, for indecent assault on a male at Palmerston North, four years’ hard labour: Edward Bush, 24, carnal knowledge at Wellington (four charges), six months’ hard labour; a tadoress, whose name was suppressed, one year’s probation for theft.