SUPREME COURT.
PRISONERS SENTENCED IPbb United Pefss Association.) WELLINGTON, December 17. At the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) sentenced Samuel Groves, aged 63, on .a charge of carnal knowledge of his niece', to four years’ reformative treatment. Prisoner was of dull intellect. Frederick Alfred tveeve, aged 18. for indecent assault on a male, was sentenced to three vears’ reformative treatment. Herbert Symes, aged 55, ex-clerk of the Pohangina County Council, for the theft of £3S2, the funds of the council, was admitted to probation for 12 months, conditional on his entering an inebriates’ home for that period. John Olsen, for snatching articles from women, was sentenced to three years’ reformative treatment. Ex-constable M‘Toniiett, aged 23, for the theft of £27 7s from the Arms Registration Office, was admitted to probation for two years; and Terai Tureti. for theft, was sentenced to three years’ reformative' treatment.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19047, 18 December 1923, Page 6
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