CRIME PUNISHED
VARIETY OF OFFENCES PENALTY FOR THEFT OF £3OO DETENTION FOR THREE YEARS A number of prisoners who had been found guilty of various offences during 1110 recent criminal sessions of the Supreme Court were sentenced by Mr. Justice T'air yesterday afternoon, .Mr. (:. S. It. Meredith represented the Crown. When C'orneille Hubert de May, aged 45, farmer (Mr. Dickson), came up for sentence on two charges of theft from a dwelling house, two of theft and one of receiving stolen property, Mr. Dickson said that de May was under pressure regarding cheques that had been dishonoured and gavo way to temptation. His Honor said the jury had very properly convicted do May of the theft of £BOO. lie had a list of past convictions. Ho would bo sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour for the theft of £2BO from the dwelling, and for the theft of £2O in silver ho would receive 12 months' reformative detention, to follow the hard labour. Found guilty on four counts arising out of a burglary of the promises of Home Furnishers, Limited, Karangahapo Road, on October 29, Reginald George Bloomfield. labourer, aged 33 (.Mr, Aekins), was sentenced to two years' hard labour on each of the first threo counts, and to three months' hard labour on the fourth, the sentences ro be concurrent;. A term of three years' probation was imposed by His Honor on Olive Muriel (ioodwin, domestic, aged (Mr. Aekins), on two charges of theft. Conditions of probation were that the prisoner should seek regular employment and cease her association with a certain man. A labourer, Krnest .Walton, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment on a charge of breaking: and entering and 1 heft from a residence on the Great South Road at Papakura on October 11. Sentence of two years' imprisonment with hard labour was imposed on Ernst Lion, farmer, aged 28 (Mr. Henry), on each of seven charges of indecent assault. on a male and one of an unnatural offence. The terms were to be concurrent.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23891, 15 February 1941, Page 7
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