SUPREME COURT.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15130, 26 January 1917, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

(Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 24. At the Supreme Court, sentences were passed as follows: Milton William Barlow was sentenced to a period of detention not exceeding five years, on a charge of breaking and entering at Stratford., The youth’s upbringing had teen uncontrolled, and he had broken the terms upon which he was granted leniency last year on conviction for theft. Joseph Andrew McWilliam and Henry Joseph Allanort, two escapees from the Stoke Industrial School, who pleaded guilty to entering several houses and stealing or destroying property valued at £IOO, were sentenced to reformative treatment not exceeding seven years. William Bernard Parker was sentenced to 12 months’ hard labour for theft from the person at Palmerston.