PENALTY FOR CRIME.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1922, Page 5

PENALTY FOR CRIME.

SENTENCES AT WELLINGTON. TARANAKI SHEEP CASE. By Telegraph.-Press Association. Wellington, July 14. At the Supreme Court, George AL fred Christie and Albert Gooday, for breaking and entering, were sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Arthur Gordon Kale, for an indecent assault, was ordered to be detained at the Borstal Institution, Invercargill, for reformative treatment for four years. Reuben Tawhao Kopu, for brcakingand entering- and theft, was admitted to probation upon strict terms for two years. William Arthur Woods, for theft, was sentenced to three years’ reformative detention. Karl Johan Bartel Sundstrom and Philip Gunn admitted the theft of a sheep, but explained that they had been camping in the back country of Taranaki 18 miles from ‘he nearest village with a butcher’s shop, and had killed a stray sheep which had wandered in the camp. The Chief Justice said the case was not of a serious type, and each of the accused was ordered to pay £4 expenses and to be placed on probation for two years. Raymond Woodard, for disregard of a probationary license, was sentenced to two years’ reformative treatment.