PROBATION REFUSED.
YOUTHFUL JOY-iRIDER SENT TO GAOL. [THE PBESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, September 23. Thomas John Stanaway, aged 19, was sentenced at the Police Court to three months' imprisonment for converting a motor-car to his own use on Wednesday. He will be kept apart from the other prisoners. Stanaway, who pleaded guilty yesterday, appeared for sentence to-day. Mr Eobin Coates made a plea for probation on the grounds of accused's youth and. the respectability of his family. Mr W. J. Campbell, Probation Officer, said he could make no recommendation. Accused, he said, must have read accounts of what happened to four boys similarly charged earlier in the week, yet he went away the same night and took a car. The Magistrate (Mr F. Iv. Hunt): Yes, the ink was -hardly dry on the newspapers when ho did -the same thing. Be is sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and I make a special order that he be kept apart from the other prisoners. Mr Coates: Can't you make it a mouth or send him to the Borstal.
The Magistrate: No, I won't. It's only by chance that these offenders are caught, and I would be failing in my duty to tho publio if'l let him off on probation. It would simply be laughed at.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19114, 24 September 1927, Page 15
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