"WOMAN THE WORSE."

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 214, 10 September 1931, Page 8

"WOMAN THE WORSE."

ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.

SEVEN YEARS' HARD LABOUR;

•' CHIEF : JUSTICE'S SENTENCE,

(By Telegraph.—Own, Correspondent.) } WELLINGTON, this day. Seven years' hard labour was the sentence imposed by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, , on Jack Morton and Florence Cooper, .on. charges of robbery, under arms. . v . ' "Prisoners, at (the bar," said his Honor,; ■"highway roEhary\"or robbery under arms ;V is an . offence,,of ,&,.inpst' serious .''is'J att' 'a j class which, ik' uficbmmon in 'New Zea'lahd," but Avhen- two : .persons- J t&ker it.'.uito - their"- heads Vto 'coifiimii ■' a series b'f robberies under?.-arms 'the. sentence- .im-. posed mn'et "be siidi-as is-; calculated not only-ito punish- the. offeftders,. but* also ; tp' dete;E ■m^dedjfron^ ; mitting ;tH$, •&anja-,«jass l of pffence. - My that to .be ' imposecV oii vou,'.an cf p n.'each'bf you, shouhf nbti'be fess than 10 years, but I propose, to take- iirto' 'account;'.the' fact both - young,:-the' -female b*?ing- 2G, andrthejma).&;.;prifioner 22. .Nevertheless tliq sentence must be iipPfr.y ou, and each qf youV. is "that 1 you Svith 'harcl' labour bn' th"6kej' 'robbeiy ; charged fieVfen- 'yed-rs, ' oh- $he;-'chAfge d£ th'eft;' -that ybut be kept- 'to,;, prison with hard labour Jfor a period of'i.wo,-.years. These spwteiices,.. howeyei-> .will. be.- concurrent." • , ; .' ; •; .. i; vi •;-? To counsel for the prisoners,'his Honor said the suggestion had come from 'the woman, and she was the worse of the two. The prisoners left the dock immedi-ately,-Go©per, being in charge of the proWtibii "'officer and other women officials.