SUPREME COURT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18546, 5 November 1934, Page 11

SUPREME COURT

AUCKLAND SENTENCES

GAOL FOR RECEIVING

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Two prisoners who had been found guily ot receiving stolen property were sentenced by .Mr. Justice hair to-day. Sydney Gordon Ross, for receiving jewellery valued at £6OO. stolen from the home of Mrs. Sweetapple, a racehorse owner, was sentenced to 20 months’ hard labor. Norman Harold McCormick, lor receiving stolen boots valued at £ll, received 12 months’ hard labor. The judge said the prisoner had associated with criminals in whose house detonators and fuse were foujirl. 1 hat showed that they were prepared to use desperate methods to achieve their ends. Found guilty of assault and robbery, William Keogh was sentenced to-day to three years’ hard labor, and his companion, Robert Reidy, who was found cmilty of robbery, to six months hard labor. , 0 The, iudge said that m Jnjy, 1932,; Keogh had been sentenced for robbery, with violence to two years hard labor, And a flogging. Within three months of his release he had committed an un- : necessarily brutal assault. He had con-, sidered, but bad decided not to order another flogging.

INVERCARGILL SESSION

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INVERCARGILL, this day. The Supreme Court sessions opened before Mr. Justice Kennedy, who remarked upon the frequency of deaths in this centre from motor collisions. John Edward Brough Wildey, 20, was admitted to probation for three years on a charge of breaking and entering at Lumsden.