SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1923, Page 1

SUPREME COURT.

WEH.IXGTOX. dime G. A number ol last-s of bioakiug and entering aiuf theft came before Alt Justiee (lmcim.il ill the Sii| relic Court to-th-.y tor senteilee. Regarding a group of (ice, his Honour relonvd to the ue essity of breaking cji gangs and picveniing so-i.-.ta i.s wiia-Ji were likely to I,or.me a n.emre. George I.e-tor IPdi'c Hi mild Campbell. .Ill'lies William 'i in jma• ((re. n, William Daniel Douglas. ; ,nd lie lor Kenneth. Claude Hodges. nil youths, iipi eared iogether. All lined been previously convicted.

Campbell was described by the poliie as the makings of a master criminal. The sentences were:—Rolfo. three yea:s’ reformative detention; Dodoes and C mnpl.ell, three yea is’ probation, and ordered to pay part of the cost ol the prosecution: Green, one years’ rcformaitvc detention ; Douglas, three sear.-’ relV.iiiative deteniion.

Voter K. Cpk l mid Andrew Colo, both seventeen yours o!' age, appeared on similar eiirrgos. Until were escapees from Weiaroa. Tiioy wore ordorotl to tie rctiinioil and aft or their rcloiiM* to be adniitti’d to probation lir throe years.

Frederick Loo Williams and Thomas Deiii-v .Murray. who recently arrived from Australia ns stowaways, wore sentenced to three years' rolormativc detention. John Nolan, tleseribod as a dangeroiis c-i'iniinal. who bad entered several houses, including that of Sir Francis Bell, had numerous previews conviction-. He was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and was declared an habitual criminal.