SUPREME COURT.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15886, 26 July 1923, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

SENTENCES FOR CRIME. (Press Association./ AUCKLAND, July 25. At the Supreme Court Mr Justice Herdman sentenced the youth, Ernest James Hannan, for theft of cheques and money amounting to £3OO, including £35 in cash, to three years’ probation, at the same time expressing his regret that the law did not allow him to order a birching by the police. Henry Howard McCarthy, for failing to account for money to the Tauranga Hospital Board, and for theft and forgery, received two years’ reformative treatment. Darcy Robert McDavitt was sentenced to 3 years’ hard labour, and George Henry Newton to 2 years’ probation for breaking and entering and theft at Taumarunui. Walter Frank Goodall, for forgery at Feilding, was sentenced to 18 months, to be served at the termination of his present sentence. Albert Salt, for indecent assault on a young female, to two years in orison.

Frederick Thomas Kelly May, for breaking and entering and theft, forgery and uttering, had already been sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for breaking his probation, and was let off without any further penalty.