SUPREME COURT
WELLINGTON SENTENCES (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELINGTON, This. Day. At (lie Supreme-Court prisoners were sentenced as follows :—Cyril Anderson (fifteen charges) Francis William Trembatli (fifteen charges) Borstal detention not exceeding two years; Sherlock Anderson (nine charges), 18 months’ reform, ative detention ; "William Richard Riekson (one charge) twelve months’ reforma, live detention. All the charges were of breaking and entering and theft in the Manawatu district. Charles Bertie Fitles (58), forgery and uttering and bigamy, two years'’ hard labour for bigamy and eighteen months’ imprisonment on the other charge, concurrent; Ronald C. Douglas, breaking and enter, ing by night and theft, twelve months’ reformative detention. Counsel. urged that- some evidence of Douglas’s real character was given by the fact that he was a. senior Rugby player and Rugby was tlm national game. His Honour - “Unfortunately breaking and entering is becoming a national game.” His Honour further remarked that there were quite good teams in the detention camps. Ebenezer James Corley, for incest, was sentenced to two years bard labour, and Benjamin Church, for breaking and entering and theft, to twelve months’ re. formative detention.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 16 June 1932, Page 7
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184SUPREME COURT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 16 June 1932, Page 7
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