CRIMES PUNISHED
SENTENCES AT WELLINGTON. SEVERAL SERIOUS CHARGES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, March, 21. Prisoners sentenced by Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court to-day were: Thomas James Balfour Mason, for theft of £B7, reformative detention not exceeding 18 months. John Doyle, for stealing £7O, reformative detention not exceeding 12 months. Frederick James Greer, aged 18, for incest at Wairoa, reformative detention in a Borstal Institute for not more than four years. John Lindsay, for forgery and uttering, re-declared an habitual criminal and sentenced to two years’ imprisonmeht, to be concurrent on each of a number of chsrges* Edward Frederick Brider arid Rupert Leslie Walter Pull, for cattle stealing at Wanganui, probation and order to pay costs. . George Henry Smith, for theft from a dwelling at Palmerston North, 12 months imprisonment and re-declared an habitual criminal. David Laing, for assault on a female child at Levin, two years’ .imprisonment
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1935, Page 4
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