SUPREME COURT
VARIOUS SENTENCES. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.; AUCKLAND, Aug. 7. At the Supreme Court, Justice Ostler sentenced Austin Walker, 22, a taxidriver, to two years’ hard labour for indecent assault and indecent exposure, on the complaint of two young Avondale girls. Samuel Faiban Wills, an ex-clerk of the Bank of New South Wales, at Auckland, who had forged two documents and obtained £4700, was sentenced to Borstal detention for a period not exceeding three years. Alfred Richard Diokman was sentenced to seven years’ hard for incest. . . ■ ' ■■■ , Albert Ernest Austin (a recent stowaway) two years’ Borstal for carnal Knowledge. Harry Davis, probation for two years for carnal knowledge. Judge Herdman remarked that in Austin’s case the girl had never been interfered with previously, hut in Davis’s case the girl seemed utterly abandoned and was a menace to the community, despite which Davis, when lie found things had gone wrong, offered to marry the girl. Norman McMillan, to three years hard, for indecent assault on liis daughter. ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1929, Page 5
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