SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1922, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

AUCKLAND SESSIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Associatlce. Auckland, August 12. In the Supreme Court, Thomas Edward Barron, for breaking and entering and theft, was granted two years’ pnJbatkm. Charles Murray Thompson, for theft of £3OO, was granted probation. Charles Alfred Healey, for fraud by a film venture, three years’ reformative treatment. William Preston, for bag-snatching, was ordered to come up for sentence Brhen called upon. WELLINGTON SESSIONS. Wellington. August 12. The following prisoners were sentenced in the Supreme Court this morning by the Chief Justice: Daniel Joseph Hedden Lane and John O’Brien, for robbery and violence, each two years’ hard labor, and Lane was declared a habitual criminal; James Joseph Willoughby. theft of a bag containing £l4O, two year** reformative treatment; George Leslie Cookson, theft of £146 from a hotel safe, three years* reformative treatment: Spencer Ernest Walter Farrell, theft of £67 and forgery, three years’ probation, conditional on making restitution: Douglas Hector Shank- and Charles Bennett, theft of a sheep at Otaki, three years’ reformative treatment.