SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1926, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] SENTENCES PASSED. WELLINGTON, Sept. l:\ Prisoners were sentenced by Justice MacGregor to-day as follows: Sarah Ellen Gibbs, 19, unlawfully opening postal packets, was ordered to come up at any time, if called on. within two years. Frank Wilson, labourer. 40. indecent assault oil a. male, two charges, five years’ hard labour on each, concurrent. Harry Walter Reid, farm labourer, 33, false pretences, New Plymouth forgery and uttering, L’al-nittj-sjimi North, reformative detention for a period not exceeding two

HAMILTON, Sept. 10. .In the Supreme Court, David Cameron Stuart was sentenced In four years’ imprisonment and declared an habitual criminal on many charges of burglary at Hamilton. The prisoner has previously been convicted several times and i.s at present serving a sentence at Wellington. M icliael Leonard Penny, licensed out from the Weraroa State Institution was charged at the Magistrate’s Court with the ll'ofL of an automatic pistol and cartridges valued at £5 from a Feilding farmer. It:, was stated that, the accused had been in an orphanage practically all his life. He left his last employer because lie was dissatisfied. The accused, who was seventeen that day received a birthday gift of three years in tlio Borstal Institute, which the Magistrate said would see him over the critical stages of his lire.