PENALTY PAID.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 247, 19 October 1939, Page 6

PENALTY PAID.

CRIME PUNISHED.

SEVENTEEN CASES.

MANY BURGLARIES.

SUPREME COURT SENTENCES.

Seventeen prisoners came before Mr. Justice Fair in the Supreme Court today for sentence oir offences to which they had pleaded guilty. A feature of the list was tha.t 13 of the prisoners had admit/ted charges of burglary, accounting for over 50 of burglary and attempted burglary in the city, and nearly a dozen such offences in other places.

THREE YEARS' PROBATION. "His parent* are greatly grieved by this boy's offence, and the probation officer seems to have put his finger on the weakness when h€' eays the bay has not been in steady employment," said Mr. C. Webb on behalf of Cyril Stanley Wheeler (17), whff had admitted two charges of breaking and entering shops and theft therefrom. His Honor said that, acting on the probation officer's recommendation, he i would admit accused to probation for three years. A first offender, .Tack Paterson, aged 23 years, was admitted to probation for three years on a charge of theft of money from a companion. Three young men of Wliangarei, William Erin Khind (17), Victor Ivers (18), and Eric John Walker (19), on charges of shopbreaking and motor car conversion, were granted probation for a term of three years, with special conditions as to the supervision of their employment. William Joseph Apliene, a Maori youth, for breaking and entering a shop at Kawakawa, was admitted to three I years' probation. A STUPID ACT. "The circumstances point to stupidity on the part of the accused rather than any intent to defraud, and I will admit him to probation for two years," said his Honor, in sentencing William Wati Tito (Mr. McCarthy), a Maori, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of forjrerv. Accused had forged an endorsement on a cheque for £1. POSTMISTRESS SENTENCED. Nora Wallington, who had been a postmistress in the Bay of Plenty district, and who had stolen various sums, amounting in all to £360, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour. It was stated the accused had been troubled by loss incurred by a fire and had commenced the thefts to cover up the losses. Of the £360 stolen £200 was covered by a guarantee. OFFENCE AGAINST GIRL. Charles Paris Josephs, who had pleaded guilty to unlawfully carnally knowing a girl over 12 years but under 16 years of age, was sentenced to 12 months' reformative detention. " STOLE MOTOR CAR. Stated to have had a good record for eight years in the Navy before he deserted, Frank Ernest Vincent Harris (Mr. F. McCarthy) was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour for the theft of a motor car. Accused had stolen the car in Auckland, driven to Wellington, and there obtained work. Eventually he gave himself up to the police. LIFE OF CRIME. Remarking that the prisoner showed a preference for a life of crime rather than earn an honest living, his Honor sentenced Terence Te Tau. ased 21, for whom Mr. Aekins appeared, to two years reformative detention. The prisoner had pleaded guilty to 20 charges of housebreaking, 10 charges of housebreaking with intent to commit a crime tw ° ° f ,leaking and ent ering a shop' , and theft, four of burglary, five of theft I i ® well,n ?houses, and one of theft irom the person.

BURGLARY ADMITTED. Sentence of nine months' imprisonwith hard labour was passed upon William Noble. who admitted two charges of burglary at Aria, near Te