SUPREME COURT

Southland Times, Issue 22157, 27 October 1933, Page 8

SUPREME COURT

DUNEDIN SESSION. (Per United Press Association.) Dunedin, October 26. In the Supreme Court Mr Justice Kennedy sentenced the following prisoners: Robert Stanley McCausland, aged 37, a married man with seven children, making counterfeit coins, two years and six months’ reformative. The Crown stated there was a marked tendency for this crime in Otago and a large number of silver coins had been circulated, the police having over 100 in their possession apparently made from 28 different moulds.

William Palmer Foley, aged 50, breaking, entering and theft of jewellery valued at £lOO, 15 months’ reformative detention.

Ernest * Robert William Pledger, breaking and entering and perjury, six months’ reformative detention. James Watson Mclvor, theft of motor cycle, seven months’ hard labour. Ernest William Walker Haggett, receiving stolen bicycles, six months’ hard labour. PALMERSTON NORTH SESSION. (Per United Press Association.) Palmerston North, October 26. Concurrent sentences making a total of five years’ imprisonment were imposed by Mr Justice MacGregor- on Lindsay Edward Eaist Garner, aged 22, of Wellington, who was found guilty earlier in the week of assaulting, with another person unknown, Christian Sorensen, a storekeeper at Himatangi, with intent to rob, also with assault so as to cause actual bodily harm and assault only. After counsel had pleaded that the accused be sent to the Borstal the Judge observed that it was a brutal assault on an old man aged 84 years. Under the Crimes Act the accused was liable to imprisonment for life and a whipping on the charge of assault with intent to rob. Five years was imposed on the major charge, three years on the second count and one year on the third.