SUPREME COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18540, 28 April 1922, Page 6

SUPREME COURT

PRISONERS SENTENCED. (Pa United Pbess Absooiatioic.) AUCKLAND, April 26. r A.t the Supreme Court the following prisoners were sentenced: — Richard Thomas Carroll, theft from a room mate, two years’ reformative treatment; Herbert W. Bull, theft of a bicycle, 12 months’ hard labour: John Edward Con- . dren, theft from a launch, six months with hard labour; Henry Hampton, theft of a motor oar and breaking and entering, 12 months with hard labour and two years’ reformative treatment: Stanley W. Mont--1 gomery, .accessory Hampton’s crime, five years’ -probation ; William F. Leahy, horse stealing at Tauxnarunui, two years with ■ hard labour; Stacey Etappe, horse stealing in company with Leahy, transferred to the Industrial School; William Henry Pevreal, theft of cash, 12 months with hard labour; ■Darold D. Prior, sheep-stealing at Cambridge, 12 months’ reformatory detention; Hugh J. Walker, breaking and entering and ■ ' theft at, Te Awamutu, 12 months’ reformat tory detention; George Arthur Wilson, indecent. assault, seven years with hard labour. Leslie Dougerfield Chapman, for theft and falsifying accounts at Devonport while . employed as the Harbour Board’s ■whatfinger, received probation for three -years on condition of reimbursement of the -£54 misappropriated and of the £3 incurred in costs of prosecution; also a prohibition ■ order was taken out. For thefts of motor cars Frank Joseph Wood (19) and Harold Joseph Whittel (18) were sentenced to re- / formative treatment not' exceeding five years; 1 and William George M’Kernan (52) »,was sentenced to a' year’s reformative treatment.