SUPREME COURT
PRISONERS SENTENCED (By Telegraph—Press Association) J CHRISTCHURCH, 13th November.. Having pleaded guilty at Tiinaru cm £ 13th November, to a .charge of- breaking, entering,' and‘.theft, Cameron Smith*,' aged . 28," and William Mason Forbes, aged 40. both labourers,;'->vere admitted to probation for one year by Miv/Jjusv V tice Johnston when they* appeared?.,JL sentence this morning, on condition that they took out prohibition orders • against themselves. - . *£ Counsel said both were married ,YiionT J and bore good characters. John Forbes Fraser, aged 19, who answered four charges of unlawful carnal knowledge, was ad milted - .. (61 pro-Li-bation for two years. SERIOUS CHARGES , . NEW PLYMOUTH, 13th November,...; In the Supreme Court this morning, Neil Macfadgen, hotel porter, wasMLT charged on five counts of indecently assaulting hoys and with the commission of unnatural offences. The jury brought' 1 ' in a verdict of guilty. The prisoner r remanded till to-morrow for sentence. NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day:- : In the Supreme Court- to-day his Honour Mr Justice Smith sentenced the - - following: Neil Macfadgen. indecent as-'*" sault on males, seven years’ detention; Harry Brunoden, theft from a dwelling, nine mouths’ hard labour; George.,Ed-..W ward Boyle, cattle stealing, six ..months’.-< hard-labour : Richard Albert Dailey,.for. gery and littering, three years’ probation and to pay the costs of the prosecution. Harvey Ernest Taylor. carnal knowledge, 12 mouths’ probation and to pay th'.' costs of the prosecution.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 14 November 1934, Page 5
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224SUPREME COURT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 14 November 1934, Page 5
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