THE COURTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 19156, 12 April 1932, Page 10

THE COURTS

SAFE ROBBERS SENTENCED. By Telegraph ■•"ess Association AUCKLAND. April 11. j As a sequel to the audacious theft of a safe containing £4l from a city shop last month. Alexander Joseph O’Brien j 1 19), and Richard Lewis Cormack (16i) i admitted the offence. The safe was bodily removed, then ! opened, and buried in a section. i Mr Justice Smith said it was not a . case for probation. He sentenced O’Brien to three years’ Borstal and Cor- i mack to two years. - RAID ON OPIUM DEN. By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, April 11. , Barricaded doors and windows in a ! house at 41 Allen Street, temporarily j barred the entry of the Police last night, i to a Chinese opium den. A well organised raid resulted in four | Chinese being arrested. They appeared I at Court this morning, and were l convicted. Ah Fook (a laundryman, 39) was sen- , fenced to three months’ hard labour, i without the option of s* fine, for keep- j ing premises where was smoked, i Charlie Young (a storekeeper, 59) was : fined £lO, in default one months’ im- i prisonment. Ah Lee (a gardener from Ashburton. 26) and Ah Park (a laundryman) were both fined £3, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment, for being on the premises. LONG LIST OF CHARGES. By Telegraph —Pre«? Association WANGANUI, April 11. Roy Norris, who escaped from the Hautu prison on February 20, and ; who was arrested at Waverley on March 3, came before the Court on 25 charges, mainly of theft and converting motor cars to his own use, also with escaping from custody, and being an incorrigible rogue. On the latter charge he was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, in addition to the unexpired portion of the sentence he is already serving. Norris arrived in New Zealand when a youth, received his first sentence in . 1921, and has practically lived in prison ever since. SENTENCES AT AUCKLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association AUCKLAND. April 11. A number of prisoners were sentenced in the Supreme Court to-day. Three Maoris from an isolated native j settlement in the Bay of Islands, admitted concealment of birth of a still- i born child. Counsel said the accused appeared ignorant of the law, and they had followed custom by burying the body in tapu ground. The Judge, after a general warning, fined James Munn £5, and admited Isabella and Ella Munn to probation for one year. James and Isabella were the grandparents, and Ella was the mother of the infant. I ,