SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 153, 16 March 1923, Page 4

SUPREME COURT

PRISONERS SENTENCED Prisoners who had pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court were sentenced by Mr. Justice Chapman yesterday morning. BREAKING. ENTERING AND THEFT. John William Withey. for whom Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell appeared, was admitted to probation for two years tor brealring, entering and theft at Danncvirke- ~ Withey, said Mr- Treadwell, was 19 years of age, and the only previous thine: against him was the fact that lie had borrowed a cycle without permission of the owner, by whom he was accosted as ho was in tho, act of returning it He" had gone into tho house to”look for his coat, and all the goods he had taken on the. impulse of temptation bad been returned His father offered to take him back and keep him at work, . . His Honour, in giving V ithey another chance, ordered him to pay £5, in monthly instalments of It's., towards the cost of tho proceedings.

FALSE PRETENCE AND FORGERY. John Mahalm, for forgery and false pretences at Pahiatua in February L'.st, was sentenced to 12 months’ muwisonuient, with hard labour. Tin? man had been drinking, said. Mr. Macassey. and had bought a watch, receiving £4 ss. as change from a cheque. His Honour: You had your chance, vet you now find your way to the Gouit as an idle and disorderly person, .toll ure sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment with hard labour. TRUST ABUSED. Thomas William Phaup, for theft of money f»om the Railway Department, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment with hard labour. The district traffic manager and another senior officer of the Department gave Phaup an unusually good character He was assiduous, a hard worker ’and a man of considerable promiseAs much as £lOOO a week had passed through his hands, and he was always punctiliously correct m Ins cash, hie was subject to no direct temptation, but there' was great indirect umpta10\Ir. CA. L. Treadwell, who appeared'on behalf of the prisoner, stressed the previous good character M tne offender, his ability, and other good qualities. , , , , His Honour: Unfortunately., wo get a great many of these eases iwre. Air. Macassey said that Phaup was 37 years of age. The amounu ot £242 was taken between January « and January 22 last. The prisoner had one child, and lived with his parents. His salary-was £325 a year. u„,.„ n Ilk Honour said he had no adoinafive to imposing a term of imprisonment. A man of 37 years of age must have known what ho was doing, and he had declined to say what he Had done with tho money.