AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14259, 16 November 1920, Page 6

AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT

PRISONERS SENTENCED. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Monday. In the Sup'remc Court to-day. Sir Robert Stout sentenced William Brighting, guilty of indecent assault on a girl, to five years’ imprisonment. Accused was connected with a similar offence seventeen years ago. Frederick Nelson Haynes, IS years okl, and William Laurence Mcßae, an elderly man, were sentenced to two years"’ reformatory treatment for an unnatural offence, George William McDonald, guilty of obtaining credit by fraud, was sentenced to one year ’s imprisonment, and declared an habitual criminal. Harold Alexander Stewart, guilty on ton counts of breaking and entering, was sentenced to five years’ reformative detention.Joseph Thomson, on a cliargd of breaking and entering, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and declared an habitual criminal. Leo Simon, for attempted theft of a suit-case at the Auckland railway station, was sentenced to two years’ reformative treatment. William Victor Alley, for theft from a shop at Hikutaia, was sentenced to two years’ reformative treatment at Haikcria. . Three years’ probation was imposed on Thos/Henry Parry, guilty of obscene exposure.