SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1925, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

o e*— c [BY TELEOKArU—I’EK PRESS ASSOCIATION.] SUPREME COURT SENTENCES. AUCK LAN D, February 17. At the Supreme Court prisoners were sentenced as follows:—’William Wentworth Chan, a young Chinaman with a long criminal record, on three charges of the.-, to three years gaol. The Judge said accused was a criminal of the worst type. He had been at the University and bad matriculated but had led a life of crime ami had not taken advantage of past leniency. .Tames Knight, for indecent assault on a voting female, to six months hard t» be followed by two years’ probation. PROBATION GRANTED. NEW PLYMOUTH- l' ol> - s ':. The Supreme Court opened this morning. Mr Justice Ostler presiding. Gordon Herbert Martin, who pleaded guilt v in the Lower Court to thirteen Charges of theft from the Bank of Ne South Wales, involving over Cl,-XL was admitted to probation lor three jeais, and ordered to pay the costs f t prosecution and abstain from bett.n„ I ‘"roHiVMountt Evans pleaded guilty to eight' charges of opening, and then from postal packages, and the Weft, of £6 from a fellow employee, and was sentenced to two years’ probation, he to pay costs aiul make restitution.