COURT NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1931, Page 3

COURT NEWS

THRASHED THEIR FATHERS. i (By Telegraph —Per Press Association) AUCKLAND, August .3. When the respective fathers ol Richard de Thierry and Arthur David Ogle attempted to chastise them toi their waywardness, the ~ sons turneii round and thrashed their fathers. 'j hese facts were revealed by Mr Justice Uerdman jn the .Supreme ■Court, when dt" Thierry appeared iui sentence on six charges of breaking, entering and theft, and Ogle <>u two similar charges.

“You have both started off to makt a. failure of your lives,” said Mis Honour to the prisoners. "When your .fathers attempted to chastise you, it ended in your thrashing vour fathers. .Both eases are very bad." The prisoners were sent to the Borstal 'lnstitute for three years.

A PERJURY CHARGE

DANNEVIRKE, August 3

Charges of perjiijy, arising out of a motor collision at Dannevirke on October 6th, last, were preferred against two motor salesmen, Wm. Andrew All'll ifDannevirke) and Vivian Carr (Wellington). The ease is the sequel to a civil action for damages arising from the collision, in which Magistrate Miller commented upon the unsatisfactory nature of the evidence. The, alleged perjury is hinged upon the question ol whether one of the vehicles had been removed from ,tHo scene of the accident, or remain'd there, as the. accused alleged it did. They pleaded not guilty. There were committed to the Supreme Court at Napier for trial. Bail was allowed.

VIOLENT ROBBERV

AUCKLAND, August 3,

Tu Whakarnra, alias Tom Ngutai, was sentenced to five years hard labour-to-day, by Justice Uerdman, for robbery with violence.

'The Judge said that it was a most serious crime. Accused had tied up an old man and then robbed him.

JURY DISAGREE

WELLINGTON. August 1

After a retirement of about four hours, the jury failed to agree upon a verdict in the case in which Arthur Wallace Richardson, formerly cashier in the rates office of the Wellington City Council, was charged in the Supreme Court with theft, as a servant, of £96 Is 2d. ■

All application by the Crown for a re-trial at the present sessions was granted. Accused was allowed bail. Accused, in evidence, said lie bail been employed by the council for nine vears as cashier. During the time he had banked probably about ten million”pounrls" of' mote', ' ‘‘TU’ that lie bad been oil the staff of the Bank of New Zealand for about fourteen years. After the war, in wh "h he ' suffered concussion and was badly wounded, he was a pay sergeant in a hospital in England. He had not been before the Court previously. Me denied that he had stohui the money, and said an allegation of theft had never been made against, him previously. He was not a racing man, and only rarely took a "spot.” His rimimslanres wire not poor, and lie had no occasion to steal.

NELSON SENTENCES. NELSON. .1 uly 31 . fn the .Supreme Court to-day pr.soners were sentenced as follows :• — Albert Pettit Rule Hendt-rso”. '"«r----n-i| knowledge, twelve months' reformative detention. fvnok Flintotf, theft of 13500, three years’ imprisonment.