SUPREME COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10897, 11 May 1921, Page 6

SUPREME COURT

SESSIONS IN OTHER CENTRES. BURGLAfi, SENTENCED. PET! PRESS ASSOC! ATIOS. CHRISTCHXTROH, May 10. At the Supreme Court, John Joseph McClintock, for burglary, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour. Prisoner’s counsel said he was a man of low mentality, and should be committed to a reformatory. (Mr Justice Herdman said the police regarded him as one of the cleverest burglars in Christchurch. If he was mentally afflicted, the gaol authorities. would see that he received the necessary attention. THEFT FFmAOHINERA . PEP PRESS ASSOCIATION PALMERSTON N., May 10. Sittings of the Supreme Court opened to-day. His Honour Sir John Salmond, in his charge to ’ the Grand Jury, referred to the considerable number of bills of indictment pre- . sented. Arthur Cameron, Hector Neil Gemmett, and George Friend, who had pleaded guilty in the Lover Court to theft of machinery from a motor-car found burned and! apparently abandoned on the roadside, were each fined £lO, in default two months’ imprisonment. PENALTY FOR."CRIME. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, May 10. The following prisoners who ' had pleaded guilty in the Lower Court were sentenced at the Supreme Court this morning. Robert John Eady, for indecent assault, was ordered to be detained for reformative purposes for five years. Richard David Waddington and Thomas Ramsay Oliver, for breaking aijd theft at Balclutha, were admitted to probation for three years. William Joseph O’Dwyer, who pleaded guilty to four charges of false pretences, was remanded to Palmerston North, where ho is now awaiting trial. John Stewart Doig, postal official at Clinton, pleaded not guilty to charge® oj opening letters and destroying them. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty arid the accused was discharged. TARANAKI CASES.' NEW PLYMOUTH, May 10. The Supreme Court sessions opened to-day. Prisoners who came up for sentence were dealt with as follow:—William A. E. Atkinson (forgery and uttering at Hawera) was admitted to probation for three years, and ordered to repay moneys totalling £65; Jack Austin (false pretences at Inglewood) was admitted to two years’ probation on condition he took out a prohibition order and repaid £36, which he had receiv•ed; Steven James (incest at Inglewood, two charges) was sentenced to throe years’ reformative treatment on each- count, the sentences to be concurrent ; Raymond Sheaves (theft and attempted burglary at Eltham), and who absconded from the Weraroa Training Farm, was sentenced to three years’ reformative treatment; Lee Wilmott (theft of a postal packet at Hawera) was admitted to probation for two years. In the cases for trial, the Grand Jury returned true bills against William Webberly (alleged incest) and Stuart J. D. Russell (alleged indecent assault). Webberly’s trial was adjourned till next session, and the hearing of the other case is proceeding- v >