PRISONERS SENTENCED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18943, 14 February 1925, Page 11

PRISONERS SENTENCED.

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS. [BY TELEGRAPH - PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CBRISTCHURCH, Friday. In the Supreme Court to-day Thomas Hardy Moody, who had escaped from Paparua and committed theft, was sentenced to a further two years" imprisonment and was declared an habitual criminal. Robert Thomas Beveridge, for forgery at Ashburton, was ordered nine months' imprisonment. Tumai Rehu (25), for assault on a woman at Kaiapoi, was sentenced to a term of five years. William Robert Cooke (23), for bigamy and making a false marriage declaration, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Ivy Freeman, charged with theft, was admitted to probation for two years. Albert Norton, for theft, was sentenced to a term of one year. Arthur Morris, convicted of rape at Tinwald, was sentenced to fifteen years' hard labotir, Mr. Justice Adams said he had refrained from ordering a (logging because of Morris' physical disabilities, namely the loss of a hand and an eye. DUNEDJN. Friday. Philip Gordon Sutherland (21), found guilty of manslaughter in connection with a drunken affray at Christmas, resulting in the death of John James Ryan, who was kicked in a vital spot, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. His Honor remarked that the accused did not begin the quarrel, but his act was "a piece of cowardly brutality.