IN THE COURTS.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17586, 27 March 1929, Page 4

IN THE COURTS.

SENTENCED FOR THEFT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 27. Percy William Solly, who was sentenced on Monday at the Supreme Court to two years' hard labour* for forgery and uttering, was sentenced to three months in the Magistrate's Court to-day for having obtained £2 from Dr Kemp by means of false pretences. Frank Blackham, who also got two years' hard labour on Monday, was similarly sentenced for the theft of six blank cheque forms and a gold ring. THEFT OF MONEY. WELLINGTON, March 27. Mr Page, S.M., yesterday sentenced Norman Paul Nesbitt (25), to dx months' hard labour, the sentences to be concurrent, on each of two charges of thef of £9 from the Commercial Travellers* Club, Dunedin, and £4 from a theatre at Christchurch. The accused had a previous record of crime. THEFT OF LETTERS. WE LLINGTON, Mar. 27. Douglas Arthur Burnett (22), a postal clerk, appeared at the Magistrate's Court on nine charges of stealing letters containing postal notes to the value of £9/15/-. Evidence was given that till a week ago accused was a postal cadet at a salary of £155. His duties ( consisted of sorting letters in the mail-roofcn and assisting the agent on the mail trunk trains to sort letters between Wellington and Taihape and back. When faced with the charges in regard to two notes,he cashed in Wellington,, the accused was quite candid and gave information of other thefts of which the Department was ignorant. He was committed for sentence.