SUPREME COURT.
CRIMINALS SENTENCED.
By Tclegraph.-rPrcss Association. Wellington, Last Night,
John Lennox and Samuel Fabey Dunning were brought before the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) for sentence today.
With respect to Lennox, appearing for false pretences, the Hon. T. W. Hislop said, on his behalf, that he was addicted to drink. Before he committed the offence he was making arrangements to go to Fiji. His family had financially assisted him, but he fell in with some companions, and had been drinking with them.
His Honor pointed out that the prisoner was an habitual criminal. If he stretched a pohit and let him out, there was no use having an Habitual Criminals Act. The prisoner had been only out of gaol a month when he returned to the way -he had lived lor fourteen years. T-T ( > v.-.is-ordered to serve eighteen months in the Wellington Gaol, after which term he was to return to the reformatory at New Plymouth.
Dunning, who had pleaded guilty to theft from a dwelling, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 83, 16 July 1910, Page 5
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173SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 83, 16 July 1910, Page 5
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