THIEVES’ REWARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 210, 24 November 1927, Page 17

THIEVES’ REWARD

TWO GO TO GAOL FOR FOUR YEARS SENTENCES IN WELLINGTON Press Association. WELINGTON, To-day. Donald McLeod "Wilson, aged 34, who pleaded guilty to the theft of £537 from Kirkcaldie and Stains, came before the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Skerrett, in the Supreme Court to-day for sentence. His Honour considered that the pi isoner had wantonly abused the consideration shown him when he had taken money on a previous occasion and had been reinstated. He imposed a sentence of four years’ reformative detention. Harry Stephen Liversage, who pleaded guilty to the theft of £4,804 from Joseph Nathan and Company, also came up for sentence. His Honour said that for seven years the prisoner had been guilty of constant defalcations. The thefts were systematic. He remarked that these offences are becoming far too common. He frankly told the prisoner that he did not believe his statement that he began his peculations to conceal the loss of certain sums. He sentenced him to reformative detention for a exceeding four years. Frederick Henry Bowley, aged 43. for breaking and entering and theft, was sentenced to two years with hard labour. Thomas Douglas Forsyth, aged 20, for the same offences was committed to the Borstal Institute for three years.