SUPREME COURT.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS
AUCKLAND. Nov. 5
Ac tho Supreme Court Air Justice Herdmnn sentenced Percy Coupland Trapi> (aged 58) to three years' hard labor for sexual -offences on ' small hoys. The judge -said that prisoner had been suspected a long time. He was too old for a flogging. Alfred Hammond (aged 16) for au unnatural offence with a male—having previously assaulted a girl and been granted probation—was sentenced to two years’ hard labor, followed by two years’ reformative detention. Henry Barr Duncan was sentenced to two years’ hard labor for obtaining three, sums totalling £206 by a clever swindle.
Ellen Shelford, a young Aiaori, was given twe’ re months’ reformative detention at Point Halswiii for burning a house worth £3OO. Norah Owens, aged 17, twelve months out from Scotland, was given, three years’ probation on 15 charges of forgery and uttering. She forged withdrawal slips on the savings bank for £46. She was .ordered to repay five shillings weekly. -■ George Robert Muncey and Walter Palmerston Johnson were sentenced to twleve months’ hard labor for breaking, entering, and theft.—P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9854, 6 November 1924, Page 6
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