DESIRE TO HELP

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 112, 5 February 1935, Page 11

DESIRE TO HELP

Chief Justice and Young Prisoner Anxious to do all he can to set a young man, George William Gordon Sutton, on the right road again, the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) remanded him in the Supreme-Court, Wellington, yesterday until February 13 with the object of having inquiries made as to prisoner’s prospects of being placed in suitable employment. Sutton, aged 19; who had pleaded guilty to two charges of forging and uttering chequed in July, 1933, was remanded by the Chief Justice when he came up for sentence last week. His Honour said he hesitated to imprison or confine a young man of Sutton’s age when it was suggested that he had earned his living and had lived decently since the commission of the offence nearly two years before. “I want to help him if I can reasonably and properly,” said his Honour, who turned to the probation officer, Mr. T. P. Mills, with the suggestion that he see what could be done to give prisoner a chance. On Sutton’s behalf Mr. R. Hardie Boys said he would get into touch with an uncle of prisoner.