SUPREME COURT
WELLINGTON SESSIONS. SENTENCES FOR THEFT. (Pe: Press Association). Wellington, Nov. 24. Donald McLeod Wilson, aged 34, who pleaded guilty to the theft of £537 from Kirkcaldie and Stains, came before Mr. Justice Skerrett in the Supreme Court for sentence. His Honour considered that the prisoner had wantonly abused the consideration shown when he had taken money on a previous occasion and had been reinstated. He imposed four years’ reformative treatment. Harry Stephen Liversage, who pleaded giulty to the theft of £4BO from Joseph Nathan and Company also came up for sentence. His Honour said that for seven years the prisoner had been guilty of constant defalcations. The thefts were sys, tematic. He remarked that these offences were becoming far too common and frankly told the prisoner that he did not believe his statement that he began his speculations to conceal the loss of certain sums. He sentenced him to prison and orderer him to be subject to reformative treatment for a period not exceeding four years. Frederick Henry Bowler, aged 43, for breaking, entering, and theft, received two years hard labour, and Thomas Douglas Forsyth, aged 20. for the like, three years at a Borstal institution.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 24 November 1927, Page 5
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