CRIME PUNISHED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 113, 16 May 1933, Page 3

CRIME PUNISHED.

COURT SENTENCES. TEN PRISONERS APPEAR. VARIETY OF OFFENCES. Ten prisoners appeared before Mr. Justice Smith for sentence in the Supreme Court thia morning. Bankrupt's Offences. Probation for three years was granted Lawrence William Pickett, found guilty of obtaining credit while, an undischarged bankrupt and of failing to keep books. Special conditions of his release arc that he pays the costs of the prosecution and that he doe* not enter into business on his own account for throe years. "There is a strong suggestion that he allowed himself to bo managed by the (inn for which he was working," said Mr. E. IT. Northcroft. "He was misled into thinking that his financial position was being watched and managed by them. Jie has a wife and three children. He has never been before a Court previously. What has occurred will be a warning to commercial houses." His Honor said Pickett had acted in an irresponsible way. and that various people throughout the country had been induced to give him credtit." "An Outcast." Three years' hard labour was imposed on Ciivaii Ganesh, an Indian hawker, aged 29, who was found guilty of assault causing actual bodily harm, "The jury brought in a rider that was tantamount to a recommendation to mercy," said Mr. W. A. Noble, who appeared for accused. "He is an outcast in his own country, and an outcaet in His Honor: He has had 50 convictions since 1921—assault, theft, drunkenness, obscene language, incorrigible rogue. Mr Noble: He is a marked man, and ho does, not have to do very much to be brought before the Court. My own opinion is that he is not quite right in the head. His Honor said the probation oflicer had reported that Ganesh was a pest to the community, both to hie countrymen and to otheis. "I propose to put you away for hs long as 1 possibly can." said his Honor. ''Three vears' hard labour." ' Ganesh cried as he left the dock. Indecent Assault. William James Bleakley, on three charges of indecently assaulting a male, and "one other charge, was sentenced to reformative detention for a period not exceeding live years. His Honor said tiie offence was a very grave one and the prisoner must be kept away from people to whom he was a. menace. Arthur Edward Wallace (Mr. Sullivan) appeared, but was remanded for sentence till Friday. He had been found guilty of indecently assaulting a female. Broke Man's Jaw. "I have very little to say. My character has been good up till now," said Robert Telford Wilson, a middle-aged man, who had been found guilty of assault with intent to do grevious bodily harm, ami with causing actual bodily harm. Prisoner said he had good references, and asked his Honor to take into consideration that he had served five months in Mount Eden on remand. His Honor: 1 will take that Into account. The bodily harm you did was very serious. You broke a man's jaw both sides. The police report very little is known against you. and that you are a man of no fixed abode. However, there ie nothing previously known against you, and in the circumstances you will bo sentenced to one year's imprisonment, with hard labour."