COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12749, 21 April 1909, Page 7

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

(Per United Pr«w Association.) WELLINGTON, April 21. The prisoners who had pleaded guilty were sentenced at the Supreme Court this morning. John David Anderson, thefts of money at Seddon from a man with whom

he had ben drinking, was sentenced to six

months; William Albert Hansen, five cjharges of false pretences and one of forg-~-iw£ at El t ham, two years'. Hansen had been road foreman under the Eltham County Council, and defrauded that body. Edgar Hupe, arson at the Royal Hotel, Palmerston North, five years'; Richard Lynch, breaking and entering and theft, three years^