PRISONERS SENTENCED.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19146, 1 November 1927, Page 4

PRISONERS SENTENCED.

♦ AUCKLAND. (rRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGitAM.) AUCKLAND, October 31. In the Supreme Court Ernest Clifford Rae, aged forty-three, Francis Harry Rac, aged thirty-two) and Kenneth McQuoid. aged thirtyfive, charged with theft and receiving cigarettes and tobacco valued at £73 from Irving Clark and Co., were sentenced. McQuoid received two years' hard labour; Francis Rae one year's reformative detention; and Ernest Rae probation for two years. The sequel to an exciting motor-car chase in the early hours of August 6th was heard when Thomas Herbert Skinner (27) and Ina Beatrice Wills (25) were charged with breaking and entering a shop and stealing confectionery valued at i'lG 14s, also with attempting to break and enter another shop with intent to commit theft. Pleading guilty, Skinner was sentenced to eighteen months' reformative detention, and he will give evidence against the girl, who pleaded not guilty. During the Crown counsel's address Judge Reed remarked that the identification, of stolen confectionery by a finer print on the ,iars was rather singular. He had often heard of finger-prints Tjeing used to prove the identity of an accused person, but never to identify stolen goods.

DUNEDIN. (FRESS .\SBOCJATIOK TELEGRAM.I DUNEDIN, October 31. Prisoners were sentenced to-day as follows :- Alexander Glendinning Young, aged 33, married, seven charges of forging documents while m the employ of Dalgety and Company at Gore, two years' reformative treatment. Cyril Matthew Dwyer, a young man, breaking and cntcriug, two years' probation. .