SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1922, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON SESSIONS.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Jan. 31. In the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Hosking, Ernest William Lowther, on a charge of forgery and uttering at Palmerston North, was sentenced to one year’s hard labor. Charles Armes, for bigamy, was fined £25 or three months’ imprisonment. James Edwards, for theft at Waipukurau, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, to commence at the expiry of a sentence he is now serving. John AVilliam Cooke and Harry Newall, for breaking and entering the railway station at Seddon, were admitted to probation for two and a-half years and ordered to repay £25 egch and pay the cost of prosecution. James Healy, for, mischief committed at Taihape, where he broke windows valued at about £47 (prisoner had been in gaol three times for similar offences), was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment and ordered to pay £25 at the rate of 10s per month. Donald Grey, for false pretences, was sentenced to nine months’ hard labor. Francis Douglas Still, Matthew Dickeon and Ivor Harwood, three youths, pleaded guilty tn breaking and entering and theft; Dickson and Still were sentenced to two years’ reformative treatment, and Harwood was admitted to probation for three years. William Zimmerman, for false declaration under the Marriage Act at Stratford, fourteen days’ imprisonment; Edward Weigel, for indecent assault on a male at Wanganui, seven years’ hard labor.