SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1929, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

COURT SENTENCES. (By Telegraph—Per. Press Association.)' WELLINGTON, June 13. Oliver William Joseph Wright tvas sentenced to three months for theft as a servant by Judge McGregor. Wriglit was a clerk in a money-order office at Wanganui where he retained £BO and lent it to a friend. According to counsel he was making every endeavour to refund the money prior to his arrest and actually was at a service car in Wellington, having raised £IOO on a life policy when the arrest was made. His Honour said Wriglit must have known very well what he was doing when he took the money. . He was a postal officer in a position of trust. William Henry Cooper, for breaking, entering and theft at Wanganui, rerceived two years’ reformative. John Langlois Maxwell Lefroy, theft as a bank servant and forgery at Pahiatua, two years Borstal. William Robert James Miller, theft as a farm manager, at Levin, twelve months. f FURTHER SENTENCES. WELLINGTON, June 13. Lewis Edmund Roliloff and William James Ashore, youths of sixteen, each were sentenced to four years Borstal by Mr Justice McGregor to-day for breaking, entering and theft. His Honour stressed discipline was needed to prevent them entering on a life of crime. Frank Lewis, for forgery, uttering, and theft and false pretences, with a record extending hack some years in Australia, will have to serve three years, this .being the loncrest of concurrent terms' imposed by His Honour oil charges; r ' ; ■■■.■ . !