SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1929, Page 6

SUPREME COURT

PRISONERS SENTENCED

(By/ Telegraph—Press Association).

CHRISTCHURCH, August '22

Mr Justice Adams sentenced prisoners in the Supreme Court to-day. Harold Petheran, guilty of mischief, was admitted to probation for two years, and ordered to pay costs of the prosecution, £8 10s. James Joseph Thomas Morris, for theft, of : £4OO, his employers’ money, was sentenced to three years! ’reformative treatment. For theft of a watch and chain, John Henry . Bercivnl - Hagarty v was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment. 1 - / Adolphus James. OurlinG;" for indecent assault on a male was sentenced to five years’ hard llmour. Edward James Dawson, for breaking, entering and theft, was sentenced to gaol for twelve months. For breach of* probation in that be failed to make restitution of £ls ss, Herbert Rudd was imprisoned till, the rising of. the Court, a period of two minutes. It was suggested tha the period of probation be extended, to which His Honour replied: “One can’t very well hold a man on probation for the term of his natural life. He had been on probation three years already. The probation system is not a collecting agency.” EIGHTEEN MONTHS FOR THEFT. , CHRISTCHURCH, Apgust 3.2. In the Magistrate’s Court, Hargrave, alias Harold Hardgrave, alias King, alias Haigh, charged with the theft «f £2 ss, and incurring the liability of £2 16s by false misrepresentation, was sentenced to eighteen months’ reformative detention. /