VERY WEAK STORY

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 52, 25 November 1930, Page 11

VERY WEAK STORY

Hawke’s Bay Prisoner JUDGE SPEAKS MIND Four Men Sentenced Dominion Special Service. Napier, November 24. The four accused, who were found guilty of attempting to break and enter the Hawke’s Bay Farmers Co-operative premises at Waipukurau were sentenced by Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court to-day. Allan Arthur Mclntosh received 22 months’ imprisonment and two years reformative detention; Ronald Hugh Mclntosh, 22 months’ imprisonment and one year’s reformative detention, and Frederick Quinn and James Richard Cameron, two years and ten months reformative detention in each case. Mr. Justice Blair took into consideration the period of detention served while accused were awaiting trial. Cameron had undergone probation for burglary, and Ronald Mclntosh also had been previously convicted. Allan McIntosh had been previously convicted of dishonesty. Allan Mclntosh was described by his Honour as a perjurer. His story was very weak, and his Honour could not swallow it. The fact that he had held a position of trust made his offence all the worse. Cameron was 27 years of age. said counsel (Mr. S. Averill), and had two children, and seemed to have, been under the influence of liquor. Quinn was 21, and his trouble seemed to be drink. Ronald Mclntosh was 20. If accused had not been disturbed, said his Honour, they would have carried out an ingenious crime. To treat them leniently would be absurd.