SUPREME COURT SENTENCES
— Presa Asaociatioa.)
(By Telegraph-
DUNEDIN, This Day. , The following prisoners were' sentenced in the Supreme Court: — David Littlejohn Brunton and Leonard George Robertson, for breakihg, entering and tbeft, 18 months' reformative treatment; James JHastings Royce Hampstead, for theft of £53 from a member. oi the Marcus Show, eight months' " hard labour ; Owen David Helm, for theft of suit lengths, valued at £500 from a warehouse, " six -cliarges, two; years hard labour; Qyril Potter, who escaped from a mental institution lo which he had been transferred while serving a criminal sentence, breaking and entering and theft, seven charges, one year's reformative treatment, with the recommendation that he be mentally examined again; George .Henry Ellis, for bigamy, 18 months' hard labour; Margaret Ellis Laughton, aged 28, for false declaration under the Marriage Act, 21 days' imprisonment ; Duncan Allan Bichan, aged 19, on a similar charge, was ordered to come up for sentence if called npon. »
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 158, 22 July 1937, Page 6
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