SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 51, 1 March 1913, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, February 2b. At the Supreme Court PatricK Dunn, i youth, who was found guilty of stealing six bicycles, was admitted to irobation for two years conditional on hiding two sureties of £2OO each for hs good behaviour. The Judge said hat this system , was found successful n dealing with youthful law breakers. Hanry William <• Swift Parton and biilip Gillard were* sentenced' for theft tom a railway natation; Plarton to ix months’ imprisonment, befog detailed an habitual criminal, and Gdard to six months’ imprisonment. George Irving, whom the Judge dcsribed as - a natural criminal, was entenced to two years’ imprisonment >n each of a series of charges of for;ery, uttering, bredking an.d: entering, -he terms to be. concurrent,) and the irisoner was ordered to undergo live mars’ reformative treatment. Percy Mercea, who committed a ireach of his prohibition order, was sentenced to twelve months’ reforma:ive treatment.