SUPREME COURT

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 66, 15 September 1917, Page 7

SUPREME COURT

PUNISHMENT FOR EVIL-POERS

Some prisoners came before his Hon- * our the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) for sentence in the Supreme Court this morning. . . The first was the young man Herbert •■ William Cough, found guilty at the last \ criminal sessions, of'sending threatening letters to a woman demanding money. Mr. P, W. Jackson, who appeared for the prisoner, reminded his Honour of the jury's recommendation to mercy. Sir ■ Robert Stout referred to another charge^*': pending against the prisoner, and Mr. T*. ... S. \K. Macassey, for the Crown, said that owing to the continued sickness of a witness the hearing could not proceed. His Honour said the prisoner required careful attention, and to be closely watched. He postponed further con- ' sideration of the matter until - Tuesday, at 9.30 a.m., in order to obtain a report' : from the gaol surgeo^n. • x "A CHANCE." '■.'■ ; '."•. Henry Williams, v who had pleaded ' guilty in the Magistrate's Court to"' charges of forgery and uttering, break- • ing, entering, and theft, got no additionalimprisonment to the two\years' reformat ' tive treatment he is now undergoing. )"I v am doing this to give you a chance to . reform," said his Honour.' ■ "THE BEST THING." Frederick Ellis, guilty of forgery and ... uttering, pleaded for leniency. "Your. . history shows," said his Honour, "that . you have not tried to make the best use. ;■ of your life. ' You are lazy,/ ancQyou" 1 don't like work, and you loaf, on your :■'.. mother." Sir Robert Stout went on. to ... refer to previous 'convictions against the prisoner, and said that the best thing to ; do was to sentence him to a term of.six months' imprisonment, to bo concurrent ,\ ; with a three months', sentence he«is now "• I serving. "~ -