MAN AND WIFE SENT TO PRISON

Southland Times, Issue 23828, 27 May 1939, Page 7

MAN AND WIFE SENT TO PRISON

FIVE YEARS FOR UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (United Press Association) HASTINGS, May 26. Nine persons were sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment in the Supreme Court at Napier today. Donald Arnott and Margaret Minnie Ethel Arnott were both sentenced to five years’ hard labour, the maximum term, on each of two charges of unlawful carnal knowledge. The terms will be concurrent. Lionel Robert Boyd, on four charges of assaults on young girls, received terms of two. four, three and three years’ reformative detention, the terms to be concurrent; Thomas George Flanagan, on a charge that with intent to disable he did actual bodily harm, three years’ reformative detention, and on a charge of theft three months’ reformative. the terms t< be concurrent; Ernest Clark, on a charge of theft from a person, six months’ hard labour; Diehard Robert Murray, on a charge of breaking, entering and theft, admitted to probation for two years; Hugh Gordon Johnson, on a charge of theft as a servant, three months’ hard labour; Ernest Michael David Sewel, probation for two years on a charge of breaking, entering and theft. Pleading guilty to a charge of forging a money order telegram and a charge of conspiring to force, Frederick Alexander Corby was admitted to probation for two years on each of the two charges, the sentences to be concurrent.