SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1929, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

ROBBED BLIND PENSIONER. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, August 2. The Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court concluded this afternoon, when four prisoners were called before Mr Justice Kennedy for sentence. Raymond Theodore-, J’adman, for breaking and entering the shop ot a blind pensioner and stealing cigarettes and other goods to the value of £B6 6s, was ordered to be detained in a Borstal Institute for,two years, the sentence to be concurrent with j that he is now serving in the Institute. AVERY SENTENCED. <Wm. Ramsden Avery, charged with theft of a motor car, with breaking and filtering (six charges), and w.th escaping from Dunedin 1 Prison, was ordered to be detained in the Borstal Institute for a period 'of .two years on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. V, Edward Gillespie, for forging cheques in South Otago, was. ordered to be detained for reformative purposes for A period of 18 months. COUNTY OFFICIAL’S LAPSE. Frederick Arthur Lloyd, until recently clerk of Maniototo County Council, received a sentence '.of one. year’s hard labour for theft of money; and thereafter to be detained for reformative purposes for ;a\. r further period of one year. On a charge of failing to pay certain moneys, into a bank, he was convicted and discharged. Accused broke down on hearing his sentence and had to be assisted from the dock by a police officer.

Walter Reynolds Sanders, who hnd already pleaded guilty to the theft of mail bags in Dunedin; was not called on, as he is at present in hospital.