PRISONERS SENTENCED
WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT Press Association WELLINGTON, Monday. The following prisoners were sentenced by Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court to-day: John Weir, aged 23, and Jack Summers, aged 20, for breaking and entering and theft, were committed to the Borstal for a term not exceeding three years. Edward John Mackay, for a similar offence at Nelson, 18 months' hard labour. Charles William Patrick Foley, aged 19, for a similar offence at Upper Hutt, was sent to the Borstal for a term not exceeding two years. William Henry Thomas, aged 41, and Daniel O’Keefe, aged 30, for a similar offence, were sentenced, the first to 18 months, and the latter to two years’ hard labour. James Albert Robert Hew, of Nelson, for the same offence, was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention. Cyril Howgate Sowry. aged 41. for indecent assault on a female child, nine months’ hard labour on each of two charges, the terms to be concurrent.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 598, 26 February 1929, Page 13
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