ONE GRAND JURY CASE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 438, 21 August 1928, Page 13

ONE GRAND JURY CASE

CRIME IN SOUTHLAND SIX PRISONERS SENTENCED Press Association. INVERCARGILL, To-day. The Supreme Court sessions opened to-day before Mr. Justice Ostler, who said he could not congratulate the district on the absence of crime as, though there only was one case for the grand jury, there were six prisoners for sentence. He commented favourably on the absence of sexual cases. Benjamin John Marrah, guilty of breaking and entering, was admitted to two years’ probation. James Brown Doake and Francis Augustus Stempa, on three charges of breaking and entering and theft, were admitted to two years’ probation, and were ordered to make restitution of £6O. Ralph Swan, a postal official, for stealing £1 8s from letters, was given two years’ probation. Albert Sharp, for serious breaches of his probation, was ordered to be detained for a period not exceeding four years for reformative treatment. Theodore Archibald Hansen, a railway clerk, for the theft of £44 at Queenstown, was granted probation tor two years, conditional on his making restitution and taking out a prohibition order. Neale Keith Coulter, for thefts at Palmerston North, was sentenced to three years’ reformative detention concurrently with the sentence he is now serving.