SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1929, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

DAMAGES CLAIM.

(By Telegraph—Presa Association).

GISBORNE, November 20. Arising out of an \ accident in a butcher’s shop some months ago in which lie had his hand caught in a mincing machine, a civil action was commenced this morning at the Supreme Court before Justice Ostler. The plaintiffs, Percy Breingan (the boy who sustained the injury and Gordon Wilfred Breingan (his father) who claimed £3045 damages from Alexander David Fletcher and Daniel Murphy. The case is proceeding.

YOUNG BURGLARS SENTENCED.

GISBORNE, Nc v. 20.

Justice Ostler, in the Supreme Court imposed a sentence of five years’ Borstal detention on Win, Clement Dearness, aged 17, and John Herbert Edward Little, aged 17, who pleaded guilty* to eight charges of burglary. At the Supreme Court, a young Maori woman, Aue Poi, was admitted to tweve months’ probation for concealment of birth.

John Nicolas Barbara was acquitted on two charges of an offence against a native girl. -

NOT GUILTY. HAMILTON, Nov. 20. At the Supreme Court Noel Douglas Robertson, a service car driver, charged with negligently driving and causing the death of a swagger, Oscar Larsen, on the Hamilton-Cambridge road was found not guilty.

PRISONERS SENTENCED. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 20. Prisoners sentenced by Mr Justice Adams included: Robert Dixon Warden, for housebreaking, two years on each of three charges,' to be cumulative. Russell George McCarthy, common assault on a woman, in the Empire Hotel, three months. Maurice Wm. Baker, bigamy, eighteen months. ■ • Ernest Gray Roach, forgery, • reformative detention not exceeding 12 months. . James Lindland Anderson and Maurice Hamilton Gregory, burglary five charges, four years at Borstal. Charles Wright, forgery under Electrical Wiremen’s Act, probation for one year and to pay costs 5s od. Royce Meers Wilson; forgery of stepfather’s name to cheque, two years probation, James Trevarton Fletcher, interfering with girl between 12 and 16, two years’ imprisonment.