WELLINGTON COURTS
SENTENCES AND CHARGES Press Association. WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Prisoners sentenced in the Supreme Court to-day were: Albert Baird, for bigamy, two years’ hard labour; Thomas Joseph Fenton, for theft at Palmerston North, three years’ reformative treatment; Neil Roderick Farquhar, for theft at Wairoa, two years in the Borstal Institute. Edward Valentine Shramka, a labourer, aged 34, and Andrew George England Pointer, aged 26, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to three charges of breaking and entering and theft. Detective Rowe said both had been out of work, and Shramka had six young children and England four. Both pleaded guilty and were committed for sentence. Robert Sproule Menzies, an auctioneer, who pleaded guilty to the theft of £990, was sentenced to four years’ hard labour. The judge said it was his duty to impose a stiff sentence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 322, 5 April 1928, Page 15
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137WELLINGTON COURTS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 322, 5 April 1928, Page 15
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