PRISONERS SENTENCED.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 105, 3 May 1919, Page 8

PRISONERS SENTENCED.

A FRAUDULENT MAORI. i Three prisoners came up for sentence I at the Supreme Court this morning bo-] fore .Mr. .Justice Cooper. Hon. .1. A. Tolo ; X.C, a). poured for the Crown. Iwa i'tth.irakeke. a Maori, committed j from Tauniiininiii on a charge of obtain] in;.' money Ivy false pretences, admitted a fairly long list of previous convictions' for various forms of theft and fraud, lie had nothing to say in mitigation, and was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour. The judge remarked that jif the prisoner appeared before the Court again In- would in all probability lie J declared all habitual criminal. THE LAW'S DELAY. | Eileen McDonald, who was charged some time ago with "detaining a postal I packet." and was discharged liecause the j essential word "wilfully" had been omitted from the information, appeared a! second time for sentence, having been I re-arreste-d and committed from the Magistrate's Court upon an amended in-; dietinent. His Honor observed that a written statement handed to him by the prisoner was to tl fleet that she bad' been in gaol for nine- weeks, nnd had: done the work of a hard-labour prisoner. I "I think that she has already been' almost Ritflieiently punished," was his comment. Mr. Tub- re-marked that the: licensed had previous convictions, but i her employer had promised to take- her ! ' back, llis Honor imposed a sentence of, seven days' hard labour, and stated that olTence-s under the Post Ollice Act Very' rarely went unpunished, as they were considered to be very serious. HIS PROGRAMME FULL. "It seems almost useless to pass a fur- , ther sentence upon him," said his Honor | in reference to Douglas Crant. who np-p.-arc-d on a charge of obtaining money. i liv false pretences. "He- is already serv-j ' ing four sentences, and has been declared ' an habitual criminal." (Irant, who had ' nothing whatever to say, was sentenced to six months' bard labour, concurrently with his present term. Mr. Tole pointed out that the present charge antedated one upon which the prisoner had already * been sentenced. I i