BURGLARY AND THEFT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 98, 28 April 1933, Page 8

BURGLARY AND THEFT.

PRISONERS SENTENCED. A TECHNICAL FORGERY. Several prisoners who had pleaded guilty to offences with which they were charged were brought before Mr. Justice Herdman, at the Supreme Court this morning. "I propose to admit you to probation," said his Honor to Victor Joseph Hensley, who admitted the theft of a motor car at Whangaroa. "You have been in prison some time, so you know what prison life is. I will give effect to the probation officer's report, but if you do not behave you will be brought here again and sentenced to imprisonment. You will be admitted to probation for two years." "DOWN AND OUT." "I was down and out at the time; 1 have been gassed and am suffering from T. 8.," said William Houston, who appeared for sentence on two charges of breaking and entering a shop and theft therefrom, also one charge of breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime. His Honor: You have pleaded guilty to three different charges. You broke and entered a shop at Paeroa, and then broke and entered ■ another shop. You have been previously convictd of being a rogue and vagabond. You will be sentenced. to be detained for reformative purposes for a period not exceeding one year. BORSTAL AGAIN. Johnnie King, a Maori, had nothing to say when presented for sentence on two charges of forgery and one charge of theft. His Honor: You have been previously before the Court. On one occasion you were granted probation, and on another occasion sent to Borstal. These experiences don't seem to have done you any good, and you have broken out again. I can only send you back to prison. You have apparently made up your mind to lead a life of crime. If you have you will spend most of your life in gaol. You will be sentenced to two years in a Borstal institution. FINE IMPOSED. "It is a great pity that a man of your reputation for hard, work and honesty in the past should see fit to do this sort of thing," said his Honor to Joseph Tolich, who had admitted two charges of forgery and one of theft. Mr. Singer, appearing for Tolich, said the latter was a Dalmatian, had been 21 years in New Zealand, and was a naturalised British subject. He had had an unblemished record up to the time he committed the offences to which he now pleaded guilty. "Technically, the charges amount to forgery," said Mr. Singer. His Honor: That is so. I don't propose to send him to gaol. Mr. Singer: I would ask your Honor, if you could see your way to do it, to impose a fine. His Honor fined Tolich £10, in default three months' imprisonment, and also ordered him to make restitution. A mouth was allowed in which to pay.