PRISONERS SENTENCED

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1912, Page 7

PRISONERS SENTENCED

At the Supreme Court to-day two prisoners were sentenced by his Honour Mr. Justice Sim. Peter Young, who had admitted a . charge of breaking, entering, and theft at Hastings, said that he was "hard pushed at the time." In reply to his Honour, Mr. Ostler (Crown Prosecutor) said that Young had been convicted on 14th June, 1911, at Chnstchnrch, as an idle and disorderly person, under the name of Henry Thompson. TUe identity hftd been established by means of fingerprints. Young was a recent arrival from Scotland when ho •was first convicted. His Honour sentenced prisoner to six months' imprisonment with hard labour, with three years' reformative treatment thereafter. ' BREACH OF PROBATION. Breach of a probation order was the offence which Leslie Stapleton had admitted. The probation officer, Mr. J. C. Scinkm, in evidence, said that prisoner was sent down to Wellington gaol from Palmt'i-aton North, where (under the name of Watson) he had been sentenced to two months' hard labour for theft. Prisoner at Auckland earlier in the year had been admitted to two years' probation. HL? Honour (to Mr. Ostler): What condition of his probation do you say he has broken? Mr. Ostler.: The contention that we haves to rely on is that he has committed a crime. The police report is to the effect that a condition of his probation was that ho should abstain from liquor for two years. _ The report Bays that he was under the influence of liquor when arrested on the charge of theft. His Honour imposed a sentence' of six months' imprisonment with hard labour, and ordered that prisoner be detained for three years thereafter for reformative treatment.