SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1930, Page 6

SUPREME COURT

WELLINGTON PRISONERS

i ißj; telegraph.—i Per. PreSs, Association :i v, . WELLINGTON, July 30. The following prisoners were sentenced to-day by Chief Jusitice Myers: — David Charles McGill, failure, to account, three years’ ham laoour.•;/ Samuol Osmond Reddish, forgery, and attempted uttering twelve months; .probation.

I Donald McPherson Stewart, who stole a launch . from Island Bay anti niade a trip 'to H’ Urville. Island, two ' iKennetiitildiin Evans and Waldeck Puis, jointly, J tering and theft, the forni^h^Krtlii! I years’ liard flabour, and I eighteen months’ reformatory ilibiii" ’o'v--1 Thomas Douglas Forsyth, breajiipM I entering by night, theft and attdmptd | ed breaking and entering, two hard labour,- cumulative with existing sentence.

Frederick. Murray, theft, the .tnaxjb mum of two years. I V\ Fdger.TVilliam Wilkins, forgeiV, 13 months’ hard labour,, cumulative, with his existing sentence. 'Ernest' William Rawnsley, breaking, entering, with intent, and theft, two years’ hard labour. ;.'f; Robert William Pegley, indecent assult on a female, two periods of two-and-a-half years cumulative. In 1921 Pegley was sentenced at Auckland to seven years’ imprisonment for a similar offence, and ordered a Hogging.

Hector Kenneth Claud. Hodges, breaking, entering and theft, four years’ hard labour.

A YEAR’S GAOL

• ’ ■ ' WEtiET^fGTON. July 30. ; - . Found in the Grand Opera House on May 9, John Bernard McDonald and Albert Janies Olsen were , charged at the Supreme Court with breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime, and, .alternatively, with being rogues and vagabonds, in that they were found in the building .at nisrhtwithout lawful excuse, A constable gave evidence that at the Police Station Olsen remarked: I suppose T will got another two yeans f-r this.” (Passing sentence His Honour said that Olsen, had proved a false prophet. "He" would 'have been correct, if., the jury had returned a verdict, of guilty oil the first count. The statute under the other count provided a maximum term of one year, and each would bo sentenced to that.