SUPREME COURT

Otago Witness, Issue 3566, 18 July 1922, Page 26

SUPREME COURT

AUCKLAND. July 12. At the Supreme Court silting- Wilfred Osborne, who had pleaded guilty to obtainmg £2OO from a widow by falsely representing that he had £4OOO in a Wellington bank, in connection with a lawsuit against me French Government regarding certain films, was sentenced to reformative treatment for two years. An order was made for the return to the widow of £lO7 hour fishermen—James Shirley, Alfred Larsen, Alfred Williams, and Henry Billyold who admitted theft from the wreck of the V. iltshire, wore placed on a year's probation, and ordered to pay costs. Clarence Evans James, for theft from his employer at Cambridge, was placed on pro--1 miaou for two years. The goods which "c-re taken, consisting of prir.ling material, are to be returned to the ownoK [The accused Osborne was arrested under the name of Lovelace at Dunedin under peculiar circumstances. He landed here from Auckland from the Paloona about 6 p.m., and that night went to the vaudeville entertainment at the Prince-s Theatre. Gisborne had the effrontery to go on to the stage as one cf a committee to watch an illusionist’s act. and he was recognised from the back of the house by Detectives Palmer and Lean, and arrested after the performance. The police had just received h:s description by wire a couple of hours before, the accused having boked for Australia by the Paloona. Ho was said to be an American.j PRISONERS SENTENCED. CHRISTCHURCH, July 14. In the Supreme Court several prisoners were brought up for sentence. William Broome Cant, formerly rabbit inspector and dog ranger to iho' Akaroa County Council, for theft of the council’s money, was admitted to probation for three years, and ordered to pay £lO towards the cost of extraditing him from Australia, and to make restitution of the sum stolen. George Edgar Pengelly, aged 24, with & series of convictions against him from 1907, for breaking, entering, and theft, received a year’s imprisonment, to be followed by three years’ reformative detention. Thomas Bartlett, for breaking and entering and theft, was admitted to three years’ probation. Kenneth Harry Armstrong, for false pretences, received a sentence of three years’ reformative detention. WELLINGTON, July 14. In the Supreme Court, George ' Albert Christie and Albert Goodav. for breaking and entering, were sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Reuben Ta'vhao Kopu, breaking, entering, and theft, was admitted to probation on strict terms for two years. William Arthur Woods, for theft, received three years’ reformative detention. Karl John Bartle Sundstrom and Phillip Gunn admitted the theft of a sheep, but explained that they had been camping in the back country of Taranaki, 18 miles from the nearest village with a butcher’s shop, and had killed a stray sheep which wandered into camp. The Chief Justice said that- the case was not of a serious type. Each accused was ordered to pay £4 expenses and be placed on probation for two years. Raymond Woodward, for disregard of his probationary license, was sentenced to two years’ reformative treatment.