SUPREME COURT
PRISONERS SENTENCED. WELLINGTON, January 20. In the Supreme Court to-day, Myra Hill was brought up for sentence on charges of theft, forgery and uttering. There were four previous convictions. The judge ordered that the sentence which the accused is already serving be extended by six months. William Prince, for breaking and entering and theft, was sentenced to 12 months’ reformative treatment. Joseph William Georgeson, for theft from the person, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, James Roach and Phyllis Banks, _ for breaking and entering and theft, received 12 months. Reginald Jonathan Stanley Sheen, for breaking 'and entering and theft, was sentenced to six months; and Henry Roydon Moore, for theft from a dwelling at Levin and theft and false pretences at Hastings, was ordered probation for three years and to pay an amount monthly towards the compensation to those who ha'd lost by his offences, and £5 towards the cost of prosecution. Charles Ratcliff, for false pretences, was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment; George Diakia, forgery and uttering at Napier, to six months; and William Harry Taylor and Roland John Dredge, pillage at the wharves, to six months.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3489, 25 January 1921, Page 47
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190SUPREME COURT Otago Witness, Issue 3489, 25 January 1921, Page 47
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