PENALTY FOR CRIME.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 May 1922, Page 7

PENALTY FOR CRIME.

SENTENCES ON PRISONERS. WELLINGTON CASES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, May 12. At the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court to-day Henry Grell and Sidney Grell, for breaking and entering, were sentenced to one year’s imprisonment on each charge, and both were declared habitual criminals. Arthur Brown, for indecent assault, received two years’ hard labor. Lawrence Egmont Windsor and Joseph Frederick Windsor were sentenced to four years’ reformative detention for breaking and entering and theft. Arthur Gorham, for receiving stolen goods, got three years’ hard labor. Mervyn John Cudby, for breaking and entering, was given three years’ reformative detention. AUCKLAND SENTENCES. Wellington, May 12. . At the Supreme Court to-day Charles John Williams was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under 16, and one year each on charges of horse-stealing, forgery and false pretences, the sentences to be concurrent. Barney Elias was fined £3O, in default three months’ imprisonment, for selling indecent pictures.