BREAKING PROBATION

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 138, 11 June 1920, Page 8

BREAKING PROBATION

For breaking the terms of his probation, a young man namedl Arthur Miles appeared before hi 9 Honour the Chief Justice , (Sir Robert Stout) this afternoon for further judicial consideration. Mr. P. S. K. Macassey represented the Crown, and Mr. P. J. O'Regan appeared for the prisoner. Miles was,convicted of theft on the 16th August', 1917, and admitted to three years' probation. He broke the terms of the order, and, appearing before Mr. Justice Hosking in April last, was admitted to a further term of pro-' bation for two years. This again, his counsel confessed^ he had broken bycoming down from the Wairarapa to. ■the city, and being found in an hotel, the terms of his probation forbidding him to return to the city or to take intoxicating liquor. He was a hardworking man when sober. His Honour remarked that he had studied the details of the case. The prisoner had .committed a mean theft from a half-caste, and ran. away with the money. Instead of owning up, he elected to go before a jury, and was found" guilty. He had twice broken his ■ probation, and had been treated leniently. Further leniency would be out of place. This time he would be sentenced to eighteen months' reformative detention, which would give iVim a chance with the Prisons Board, if he conducted himself properly. This would be the last chance.