PRISONERS SENTENCED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 9

PRISONERS SENTENCED

DUNEDIN SUPREME COURT. SERIOUS CRIMES IN SOUTH. [ Per Press Association ] DUNEDIN, Alay 2. In the Supreme Court to-day, Air Justice Kennedy lined David Thompson, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of carnal knowledge, £2O in default two months’ hard labour. John Joseph Whitty, for attempted carnal knowledge and indecent assault, three offences being committed in 1928, was ordered two years’ detention in a Borstal institute. James Robert Stanley Sutherland and George Frederick Sargeant were sentenced for breaking, entering and theft. Sutherland received two years’ in a Borstal institute and Sargeant, on account of his youth, was placed on probation for three years.

William Robert Gibson, an ex-stud-ent, for breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime, was placed on probation and ordered to pay the costs of the trial.

Colin Raymond Wills, for indecent assault on a female, was committed to a Borstal institute for two years. Albert Robert Wilcoxson, for breaking, entering and theft, was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention, and John Teer Patterson received a similar sentence for attempted carnal knowledge of a girl of nine years.