SUPREME COURT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19443, 31 October 1925, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

AUCKLAND SITTINGS PRISONERS SENTENCED AUCKLAND, Oct. 30. At the Supreme Court, Ernest John Brasting and Gustav Henry Hansen and William Thomas O’Brien, who gained notoriety for activities in breaking and entering houses and converting motors to their own use, and escaping from prison, were each sentenced .to five years’ hard labour, and declared habitual criminals. Brasting and O'Brien expressed their intention of appealing. John Leslie Buckley, for breaking entering and theft, and who was con-

corned in an offence with’Brasting, was sentenced to four years’ hard labour. William Lawrence Mcßae, for attempting an indecent assault on a male, was sentenced to five years’ hard labour. John Petley, for forgery, theft, and false pretences, was sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Leslie T. Devlin for breaking, entering, and theft was ordered 18 months’ reformative treatment. Vincent Joseph McShone and William Howell, for breaking, entering and theft, were sentenced, the former to 12 months’ reformative treatment and the latter to three years’ reformative treatment. Frederick Oswald Dakey, for breaking, entering and theft, ordered two years’ reformative treatment.