SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1929, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

THEFT OF MAILS. •By Telegraph—Fer Press Association.) » DUNEDIN, August 15. At tlio Supreme Court, Walter Reynolds Sanders, ou two charges of theft of mail bags was sentenced to three years hard labour. PRISONERS SENTENCED. WELLINGTON, Aug. 15. Prisoners sentenced by His Honour Mr Justice Smith were ; Stanley Jesse Dark, for theft as a servant of £4OO, two years reformative. Taare Hina Rewi, forgery at Masterton, probation for one year. Peter Sorenson, aged 66, indecent assault on a female child, s,x months. Waiter Whitehouse, theft ap a servant of £658, two years reformative. Henry Ernest Schirnack, indecent assault on a female, assault on a female and theft, three years Borstal. David Swift, breaking, entering and theft, two years refoEmative. Wm. Edward Francis, assault and robbery, and two charges of assault on a female, two years Borstal. Nathaniel John Reed, who recently injured a motor cyclist by running iiuo him while driving his car on the Hutt Road, came up for sentence.. Counsel said that prisoner had pleaded guilty rather than wait three months in prison, and that the accident was dtie to a cigarette ash blowing into his eye.

His Honour said that one could not suppose that the prisoner deliberately wished to injure the young man but if, while intoxicated, he launched himself'upon the Hutt Road in charge of a motor car, on a Sunday evening, he was really guilty of a criminal offence. Probation could not be granted nor was the case one for a fines-- Six’ months imprisonment and his license ; cancelled, .with" three years disqualification was imposed.'