CRIMINALS SENT TO PRISON

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12283, 31 October 1925, Page 18

CRIMINALS SENT TO PRISON

AUCKLAND CASES NOTORIOUS HOUSEBREAKERS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, October 30. At thp Supreme Court, Ernest John Brasting, Gustav Henry Hansen, an<l William Thomas O’Brien, who gained notoriety for their activities in breaking and entering houses, converting motors to their own use, and escaping from prison, were each sentenced to five years’ hard labour, and declared habitual criminals. Brasting and

O’Brien expressed their intention to appeal. John Leslie Buckley, breaking, entering, theft, and who was concerned in an offence with Brasting, was sentenced to tour years’ hard labour. William Lawrence Mcßae, for attempting an indecent assault on a male, received five years’ hard labour; John Petley, forgery, theft, and false pretences, two years’ hard labour, Leslie T. Devlin, breaking, entering, and theft, eighteen months’ reformative treatment; William Joseph James Mills, false pretences, two years’ reformative treatment; Vincent Jo seph McSlone and William Howell, breaking, entering, and theft, the for-

mor got twelve months’ reformative treatment, and the latter three years’ reformative treatment; Frederick Oswald Sakey, breaking, entering, and theft, two years’ reformative treatment