SUPREME COURT
Three'prisoners' came . before His Houour Mr. Justice Edwards for sentence oil Saturday. Mr. V. R. Meredith, of the Crown Law Office, appeared for the Crown. Ernest Harold Holliday, who had been convicted of theft and indecent assault, .was sentenced qn the first charge to two years', imprisonment with hard labour, and on tho second to three years' hard labour.' -He was further'ordered to be detained for reformative treatment for a period of five years, the term to be cumulative upon tho sentences already passed.
Andrew Benedict Drosdowski, who gavo liis age as 17 years, had pleaded guilty to charges of forgery. Ha was placed ,on probation for. two • years and ordered to pay the costs of the prose-
cution (£3 125.). Thomas Docksey, who had pleaded guilty to four charges of forgery and one of false pretences, whs sentenced to ,twb. years', imprisonment oil . the charge of false pretences'and'to the siime'-term on each'of the other four charges (the sentences to lio concurrent). He was also declared to he an habitual criminal, having been convicted on fifteen charges of forgery since 1911..
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2960, 26 December 1916, Page 9
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183SUPREME COURT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2960, 26 December 1916, Page 9
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