CRIME PUNISHED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 283, 28 November 1940, Page 4

CRIME PUNISHED.

PRISONERS SENTENCED. "With a rciard like youiv- I must i: 11111 >~ ( • a sentence of imprisonment," -aid Mr. .lu.-iicc Fair to Cecil Arthur lleu-lcy who came up at the Supreme Court to-day for sentence on three admitted charges of theft from hold bedrooni- in Hamilton. Accu-ed said the offences were done while he was under the influence of drink, but his Honor remarked that no doi.fit the s;uin. applied to 20 previous oil en cc - of \arioiis kinds of which the prisoner had lieen convicted. It would be held in hi- fa \ our that the prisoner had volunteered for service and had been found medically unfit, tmt the least sentence that could be ini|xised was one of nine months' imprisonment. A similar plea that drink wa«s the cau-e of his downfall, and that a prohibition order for life would l>e for his pood, was made by John Tai Raymond (•>•>). who admitted breaking, entering and theft at Te Puke. His Honor replied that the Probation Officer's report definitely stated that pri.-oiier was idle and dishonest and was looked upon with fear by Maoris and pakehas because of his tendency to violence. In Mich circumstances, and with a type of crime that must always be met by an exemplary sentence, the lea-t sentence that could be imposed was IS months' hard labour. "Hoy- must be protected from the effects of tli> typo of vice," declared his Honor, in imposing a sentence of three .Near-' hard latiour on Albert Ma-on Archer (2S) and of two years' reformative detention on Tvan Mark Dav (28) on charges <>f indecent assaults oil boys, to which t lie prisoners had pleaded £uilt v.