SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1924, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

I'll ISON EMS SEX I EXIT.I) in •nci.i-.oitAPii —amiss assx., coavnujirr. WE El. INTON. March 7. At l lie Supreme Court, Sir Robert Stout senteileed the following prisonNil hulas Peters, aged 25 years, amt Alice Mabel Peters, aged 23 years, for defrauding the Pensions’ Department of £975, the male accused two yours’ reformative treatment, and his wife probation for two ye/trs. Counsel gave no explanation for Peter’s action, hut claim 1 that the wife was dominated by him. Counsel made the plea for ibulioii, as there were two smalt - girls lo he considered. Henry Albert t'eiiriuger. for theft from a dwelling at Palmerston North, uas sentenced Lu i>’ months’ reformative treat incut. John Welsh Brownlee, theft of £2< final ;he Public Works Department, was udmiG'd to probation for twelve me nth.-. George Rmhlell Gale, for bigamy, received U.o years’ hard labour. William .loliii Newman, for theft, lYom the person, lii'e years’ relormalive treatment. James Patrick Murray, broach ’--of probation. one year s - t'elormalive treat umnt at the expiry of bis preseit-K — sentence 1)1 X EDI X . March 7. At tlie Supreme Court, the following prisoners "ere sentenced:— Matthew Russell, breaking, entering and theft, six months’ gaol. John Richard McGrath, procuring a certain noxious thing lor unlawful purposes, two years’ reformative treatment. William George Edwards, two charge.-; of breaking, entering, and one of theft, six months’ gaol on each eiiaree, the sentence to he cumulative.