SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1925, Page 1

SUPREME COURT.

BY TKCEOHArir —rIIKSS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. AU( ELAND SENTENCES. AUCKLAND, August 5. IVisoners were sentenced at. the Supreme. Court to-day as follows: George Thomas Nelson, aged 21. to throe years’ reformative detention, concurrent with his present sentence, for a breach of probation. Edward Arnold Curtis to three veers’ probation tor unlawlul carnal knowledge ot an imbecile woman. Rov Martin, aged 22, to two years’ hard labour for indecent assault on a girl. Morris McAulille. for breaking, entering and theft, to two years’ probn-

lion. John !);ivies, «■ pri><»n<T with si • nml. lor fa Iso protonces. In two yours* hard labour. Henry Albert Print, for making a fraudulent statement, under the P. and T. Act, was lined ;CUb Alexander Rea and Horiuird Rntmmol, Gordon Wilder moth, for ’breaking, entering and theft, to reformative treatment not exceeding two years. William John Rowe, lor receiving stolen goods, to two years probation. John Johnson, for breaking and entering with intent, to two years. Eli Mitchell, for false pretences, to two years’ probation. Lewis Asher, alias Anderson, oil 12 charges of ialse pretences, to 2 years. Alfred Ireland, for false pretences, to two rears.

James Reginald Renee, on S charges of theft from postal packets, to two years’ probation, owing to l|is youth and physical condition. Frederick Theodore Troultou. for forgery with littering and thclt, to two years’* hard labour. Ili-rald Markwich. for lalse pretences, to six months’ hard labour. Cyril’ Mathew -Cullman and Arthur Alexander Watson, lor unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under 16, to 12 months’ probation, owing to the girl’s behaviour.

Thomas Richard Porter, on five charges of false pretences, to eighteen months’ gaol.

WELI.IXGTOX SENTENTES. WELLINGTON, August 5. Allred Lewis Albert Sclmour, for indecent assault, was sentenced to five

years’ imprisonment. John Muir, i’or thclt ol Cod Irom slot telephones, was admit toil to probation for two years. Eilward C'owie, breaking and enter-

ing. probation lor one year. WELLINGTON, August 5

Raleigh Ginsberg, who recently pleaded guilty to twenty-four charges of theft in connection with cash fidelity bonds, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, at the Supreme Court to-day. Air Justice Ostler said that prisoner had deliberately adopted the career of a professional swindler, and had become what was known in the criminal world as a "confidence trickster.” The evidence showed that he used the money for bis own purposes. no doubt in gambling and riotous living.