PRISONERS SENTENCED
CHRISTCHURCH SUPREME COURT. (Special to Daily Times.) CHRISTCHURCH. December 4. Prisoners came up for sentence before Mr Justice Stringer in the Supreme Court this morning, all the cases being connected with thefts. Leonard Wright, aged 37 years, who pleaded guilty in the lower court to breaking, entering, and theft from a house in Christchurch on November 23, was sentenced to six months hard labour. James Henry Davey, 23 years c! age, was sentenced to six months* imprisonment on two charges of breaking, entering, and theft at Christchurch on November 30. Probation for three years, and ordered to pay costs and make restitution of £35 15s within a month, was the sentence in the case of William Roy Mills, a postal messenger, who pleaded guilty to the theft of a mail bag at Christchurch on December 2. “Postal offences are very serious and there have been a good many lately,' said his Honor when Mr Amodeo ashen for probation for the lad. “I have dealt with two or three cases myself lately, but I am very loath to send a young man like this to prison, or to a Borstal Institute.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19965, 6 December 1926, Page 10
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