THIRD EDITION SEVEN YEARS’ GAOL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17182, 12 February 1930, Page 13

THIRD EDITION SEVEN YEARS’ GAOL

WOMAN’S GRAVE CRIME SENTENCES AT AUCKLAND (Pej Preia Association.; AUCKLAND, this day. U the Supreme Court, prisoners were sentenced by Mr. Justice Smith as follows: Charles Mozart Spinley, for bigamy and making a false declaration, two years’ hard labor; James Anthony Lynch, receiving stolen / goods, 18 months’ reformative detention; Edward Richard (Black, theft, two counts, and attempted theft, three years’ hard labor; David Todd, theft, two years’ hard labor; Claude Paget, theft, one year’s hard labor. Todd and Paget were associated with Black in one theft. The following sentences were passed by Jdr. Justice Herdman: Maud Herbert, 49, for unlawfully using an instrument, seven years’ imprisonment. ' The judge said that but for the fact that some members of the grand jury were apparently unable to take a correct view of the statutory limitations of their legal duties, Mrs. Herbert would have stood her trial for murdon He had no doubt that the prisoner was directly responsible for the young woman’s death. Never before in his career had he listened to n story so shocking and utterly revolting. Sydney Herbert Norman, for indecent assault on a male and one on a female, received seven years’ hard labor. The judge said he could order the prisoner to be flogged, and per- ~ hups he should so do but for the fact that he suspected that the prisoner might bo mentally unbalanced. ADcrck Norman Moore-Wright, for ?'■ JlWigent driving, causing death, was ffned £IOO, and his motorist V license cancelled for three years.. Thomas Leonard Williams, for theft and false pretences, received two years’ probation. Frederick Dixon, for breaking and entering and theft, received 18 months’ 'hard labor; David Barry, ; theft, forgery, and false pretences, thjrso years ’ Borstal detention; David Henry Mo’naffey, theft of a cow, two ■years’ reformative detention; Sydney Charles Marshall, indecent assault on a female, two years’ Borstal detention; Allan Alexander Cuthbertson, indecent assault on » child, two years’ reformative detention.- - .