CRIME IN DUNEDIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20324, 3 August 1929, Page 16

CRIME IN DUNEDIN.

o THEFT FROM BLIND PERSON

COUNTY CLERK IMPRISONED

[BV TFXEOttArIT.—rRKSS association.] DUNEDIN, Friday

The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court concluded this afternoon, when four prisoners appeared before Mr. Justice Kennedy for sentence.

Raymond Theodore Padman, for breaking and entering the shop of a blind pensioner and stealing cigarettes and other goods valued at £8 6s 6d. was ordered to be detained in tho Borstal Instituto for two vears. The sentence is to bo concurrent with that ho is now serving in the institute.

William Painsdon Avery, charged with the theft of a motor car, with breaking and entering (six charges), and with escaping from the Dnnedin prison, was oidcied to be detained in the Borstal Institute for two years on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. Edward Gillespie, for forging cheques m South Otago, was ordered to be detained for reformative purposes for 18 months.

Krederio Arthur Lloyd, until recently a derk of the Mnniototo County Council, received sentence of one year's imprisonment with hard labour for the theft of money, thereafter to be detained for reformative purposes for a further year. On a charge of failing to pay certain moneys into a bank ho was convicted and discharged. Accused broke down on hearing his sentence and had to bo assisted from (he dock by a police oflicer.