SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1932, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

A SERIES OF BURGLARIES. J„. j v - i’ . - --. 1 * four Alex sentenced. - (Per'Press Association — Copyright .) f: ■ :-•■ -' { WANGANUI/ August 8. ■ • ■‘This/class-of crime is' becoming altogether .-too/pominbri, and it'.is very disquieting to find young/ men like; these going- about, the country ;>;as. they |b/ve been .r, doinj/ entering / (shop*, damaging property^/and ■ iakirig; gdous/ (said this Honour, Mr Justice MacGregor at. thfe Supreme Court 'to-day, .when ■ imposing terms ;of. -imprisonment on prisoners, .who had pleaded guilty to charges‘''of breaking,., .entering, and theft. “I see no reason for extending Herbert ■ Vivian t-alkington Buttrey, a labourer, - aged 23,- with 17 charges against him, was sentenced to .three years’ imprisonment, and his Honour directed fiijai the prison medical authorities examine him with a view of determining whether his mentality was normal. Thomas Butler, a farmer, : aged 30 years, waa sentenced to one year’s imprisonment* Victor (Robert Ward, a labourer, aged 24, tn .two years’ imprisonment. These ■ font were concerned -in a series of 18 burglaries which - occulted in Wtogaiiul . from; Be* oember, . 1931, V Julyy-1938,/;; Clarence Amoa Woods, 'ftged 24, find Francis j Thomas ’ Curran, aged . 29, both labourers were each sentenced U> nine months’ imprisonment on* charges; ’ relating, to the attempted breaking/arid entering of a stor 6 at ■ Rata, near Wanganui.- ; J . ■ s ' " 'Eugene Charles Domiijio McCarthy * mas-, sentenced jto on© year's*-imprison-ment on a voharge of carnal knowledge.