SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1922, Page 1

SUPREME COURT

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) PRISONERS SENTENCED. WELLINGTON, January 31. At the Supreme Court to-day before Mr Justice Hosking, Ernest William Lowther for forgery and uttering at I Palmerston - North, was sentenced to one year’s hard labour. Charles Amies, for bigamy, was fined £25, or three months’ impriionment. James Ward for theft at Waipukurau, was ordered one year’s imprisonment to commence at the expiry of the ■sentence he is now serving. I John William Cooke and Harry Newall for breaking and entering the railway station at Sodden was admitted ! to probation for two and a half years and ordered to repay £25 each and pay costs of the prosecution. James Healy for mischief at Taihape by breaking windows valued "at about £47 (prisoner has been in gaol three times for similar offences) was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment and ordered to pay £25 at the rate of ten shillings a month. Donald Gray for false pretences received nine months’ hard labour. i Francis Douglas Still Matthew Dickson and Ivor Harwood, three youths, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and theft. Dickson and Still were i sentenced to two years’ reformative 1 treatmen, and Harwood was admitted 1 to probation for three years. 1 William Zimmerman, fo r a false t declaration at Stratford, under the i Marriage Act was sentenced to 14 ; days’ imprisonment. i Charles Edward Weigel for indecent a assault oh a male at Manganui, re- o ceived seven years imprisonment. s