PUNISHED FOR CRIME

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 143, 18 June 1923, Page 7

PUNISHED FOR CRIME

PRISONERS RECEIVE SENTENCES.

_ Prisoners appeared before Mr.- Justice". Chapman at the Supreme Court to-day" for sentence. ■

The younsr lad, Henry George-Smith,' who had 'been. remanded on charges of breaking, entering, and theft, in order to enable more particulars as td the boy's, record .to be secured, was ih« rirei .prisoner to be dealt with. The Crown Prosecutor said that the boy was born in 1907. Ho had been associated with a sang of thieves, of which, despite his usje. he was the leader. '.

Mi-. Justice. Chapman said thai from the facts before him it appeared that the boy \v;is out of control. -

The ' Crown Prosecutor:. .''.Tim .police, veffurd this boy as a dnmzeroua' criminal." Tiie ■ mother of thft boy is present, and' she asks that he should be treated leniently."

Kis Honour said that all he could do was _to order a fairly lons' term. of detention for reformative purposes, ;n the hope that the sentence would have som» benefit. He fixed the term at three years. Jack Johnston .had pleaded suiity to four charges of breaking, entering." .-.rid theft at New Plymouth. It w.as explained that the prisoner was 22 jrears of ags; The police report was that, he-was "in-' dined to be lazy. There were brevious convictions against the accused for theft and breaking'and entering, and for his last series of crimes he had received four years' reformative detention. ':

His Honour said that Various experiments had been tried without success. Johiihton was sentenced to imprisonment for three years with hard labour.