SUPREME COURT

Southland Times, Issue 23128, 19 February 1937, Page 12

SUPREME COURT

WELLINGTON SESSIONS (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 18. The following prisoners were sentenced by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers):— Herbert Henry Ash, aged 20 years, a rnachinest, breaking and entering with intent to steal and breach of probation order, three years detention in the Borstal Institution. Clarence Albert Butterfield, aged 33 years, a cabinet maker, breaking, entering and theft, twelve months’ imprisonment. Leslie Knopp, aged 27 years, a store man, breaking, entering and theft, two years’ probation. Mary Isabella Christina Laloli, aged 34 years, a domestic, bigamy, two years’ probation. Robert Brownlie, aged 45 years, a clerk, theft of £598 2/10 as a servant of the Tahunanui Town Board, eighteen months’ reformative detention. Donald Thomas Bell, aged 20 years, a store man, and James Harrington, aged 25 years, jointly breaking, entering theft, two years’ probation. William Arnold Sinclair, aged 45 years, a labourer, bigamy, an eleven-year-old offence, six months’ imprisonment with hard labour. GISBORNE (United Press Association) GISBORNE, February 18. A sentence of two years’ imprisonment with hard labour was imposed by Mr Justice Ostler this morning on William McKinnon, a mercantile agent, who pleaded guilty to 17 charges of forgery, uttering and theft, said by his counsel to be the result of frenzied betting in an endeavour to recoup previous losses. A Maori, Thomas Paumea Clarke, pleading guilty to assault in the early hours of the morning upon another Maori whom he discovered with a woman to whom he was married in Maori fashion, was admitted to probation for a year conditional on paying the cost of the prosecution. For indecent assault on a girl,

Thomas Matenga, who was . found guilty yesterday, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour. . Two Maori youths, George Waititi and Mahuika Allison, found guilty of common assault on two women at Raukokore, were admitted to probation for a year, Waititi being ordered to pay £2O towards the cost of the prosecution, which totalled £45, his Honour commenting that they were the heaviest in his experience. Only the fact that the victims were women and not girls and that the jury acquitted accused on the major counts and recommended mercy, saved the prisoners from a gaol sentence.