SUPREME COURT.
[BY TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. CASES AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, November .7. At the Supreme Court, Mr Justice Herdman sentenced Percy Couplaud Trapp, aged 78, to three years’ Sard labour for sexual offences against small hoys. The Judge said the prisoner had been suspected for a long time. He was too old for flogging. Kenneth Alfred Hammond, aged ](!. for an unnatural offence with a male, lie having previously assaulted a girl, had been granted probation, was sentenced to two years’ hard labour followed hv two vears’ reformative treat -
Henry Barr Duncan received two years’ hard labour at the Supreme Court for obtaining three sums, totalling £203, hut a clever swindle. Xorah Owens, aged 17, twelve months out from Scotland, was granted three years’ probation on charges of forgery and uttering. She forged withdrawal slips at the Savings Bank for .£4O. She was ordered to repay five shillings weekly. George Robert Murray and Walter Palmerston Johnston were sentenced to twelve months’ hard labour for breaking, entering and theft. Ellen Shelford, a young Maori, uccived twelve months’ reformative treatment at Point Halswell for burping a house worth £3OO.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1924, Page 2
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186SUPREME COURT. Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1924, Page 2
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