SUPREME COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21024, 13 May 1930, Page 10

SUPREME COURT.

PRISONERS SENTENCED. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 12. In the Supreme Court prisoners were sentenced by Mr Justice Smith as under: —Richard Stanley Sinclaire, indecent assault on a male, three years’ probation; Robert Morton, robbery with violence, three years’ hard labour; Janies Daley, assault with intent to 1 rob, 18 months’ hard labour; Frank Margovini, aged 22, a bricklayer, uttering a forged cheque and obtaining goods by false pretences, three years' probation; Edward Harold Alexander, _ attempted arson, one year’s reformative detention: Rangi Sullivan, receiving and theft, two years; William Thomas, breaking and entering and theft, three years; Rebecca Stuart, 22, breaking and entering and theft at Dargaville, three years’ probation; John Te Waake, tged 18, breaking and entering and theft, and setting fire to a dwelling at Dargaville, two years in the Borstal; Peter Stuart, aged 45, breaking and entering and theft, and setting fire to a dwelling, theft of sheep, receiving goods, and other charges, five years; James Toko, gumdigger, aged 20, breaking and entering and theft (two charges), arson, sheep stealing, two years in the Borstal; Clarence William Bruce, failing to keep proper books prior to bankruptcy, three months’ imprisonment. WELLINGTON. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 12. In the Supreme Court, before Mr Justice Blair, Walter Fraser Sherrills Harneiss, alias William Fraser, and James Burman, who were found guilty last week of assault with intent to rob, were each sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. _ Counsel for the defence said that in view of their record he found it hard to say anything to influence the court in their favour. His Honor said that the prisoners had got hold of a half-drunken man and had throttled him and had attempted to rob him. Harneiss had been sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for a similar offence in Christchurch in 1923. Other prisoners were sentenced as follows.—Reginald Carr Res, indecent assault, six months; William John Byrne, indecent assault, three months; John Charles Turvey, receiving stolen property, three years in gaol; Patrick James Michael Heffron, breaking and entering and theft, Borstal treatment for a period not exceeding two years. INVERCARGILL. (Per United Press Association.) INVERCARGILL. May 12. In the Supreme Court to-day, Thomas George M'Creath was charged with breaking and entering a shop at Greer.hilts and stealing goods to the value of £5, while his brother, Edward Lawrence M'Creath, was charged with receiving goods, knowing them to have been stolen. Both the accused pleaded guilty, and vere remanded for sentence. William Warnock, who was charged with having set fire to a cottage at Winton, was acquitted.