SUPREME COURT.

Otago Witness, Issue 3862, 20 March 1928, Page 54

SUPREME COURT.

PRISONERS SENTENCED,

HAMILTON, March 13.

Two men named Ira George Land, aged 27, and Bernard Francis Murray, aged 21, who were found guilty at the Supreme Court of breaking and entering a garage at Tauranga and stealing seven suit cases containing a traveller’s samples of clothing, came up for sentence to-day. .Mr Justice Blair said that Murray was undoubtedly influenced by Land. The probation officer had not recommended probation, but his Honor said he would take a risk and give Murray a chance to redeem himself. Murray was admitted to probation for a period of three years, the conditions being that he must not frequent hotels and that he must pay the cost of the prosecution. Land had been the leading spirit, and the originator of the crime. It was an absurd and silly burglary. Land had deliberately committed perjury in his effort to secure acquittal. He was ordered to be detained for reformative purposes for a period not exceeding three years.

WELLINGTON. March 16. In the Supreme Court, before the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Skerrett, the following prisoners were sentenced :—Cecil Edward Fuller, for theft, was ordered two years’ reformative detention; Arnold Spencer Wilson, indecent assault on’ a male. three years in the Borstal; James William Arthur Johnson, forgery and uttering, two years’ probation, and to pay the costs of the prosecution; Robert Denny Fletcher, for forgery, was fined £2O; Fairleigh Alexander Marriner, for supplying a noxious thing, was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within two years; Rita Duffy, theft as a servant, was ordered to come up for sentence if Called upon within two'vears on condition that she remain in Mount Magdala Home.-