CRIME PUNISHED

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 17, 20 July 1931, Page 11

CRIME PUNISHED

SENTENCES OF COURT

NINE CASES DEALT WITH

01 vino prisoners sentenced in ! the Supreme: Court this.morning by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, live were before the Court on charges of breaking ajid entering and Ihct't. Patrick doscpu Hawkins., alias Patrick Harkins, a liienutu, aged 'S3, suid he had nothing to .say iv answer to a charge of breaking and entering by uiglit and theft, rie was sentenced to eiguteeii mouths' imprisonment, witu hard labour. FiRST OFFENDER. Ou v cum go oi breiuung -and entering and tlieit, tfusepli^Vviinain .brown, a lauuuror, aged 'm, came beiore tne Court as a lii-st oitunucr. Mr. YV. P. bnonand, wuo appeared lor the prisoner, in asKing tnac in-own be extended me utuiosc leniency possible, said mat me olieiice appealed to ue more tne result ot a aruniien carousal Uian a premeditated crime. J-/Hiuor and cigarettes or a total value or auout xiv iiiiu Deen stolen. . in answer to tne Chief Justice, Mr. fttionunu said tnac ttie prisoner uiuortunuceiy nuu no woriv to go to. "it is rawer a muicmi case, Air. fcinorland," said tne i^niui justice prior to passing sentence. "1 very liiucn disiiKe sending a person, especially a young man, to gaoi tor tne-nrst time, but I am not at all sure that a snort period o£ detention might be the best tlimg lor him. i am airaid i cannot admit nim'to probation, but I shall deal leniently with him." Brown was sentenced to twelve months' reformative' detention. His Honour instructed the Probation Olnuei- to endorse the'papers so that the case might be reviewed-at .the curliest possible moment by the authorities. YOUTHS IN TROUBLE. Lawrence Graham Greer, labourer, aged 19, and Claude Augustus Gibbs,' butcher, aged 21, appeared for sentence on -a charge of. breaking and.entering and theft, and Greei' on.a further charge oi theft from a dwelling. Mr. linnis, who appeared .for the accused, said he. did not think Greet' and Gibbs .realised at the time the seriousness of what they were doing, but the proceedings that had been taken against them had been a severe lesson to them. Both accused came.from' respectable and wellknown families. His Honour said lie did not propose dealing 'with-the prisoners in the same way. ' Although. Greet was the" younger of the two, he appeared.to have been the ringleader. It was quite plain that he must be subjected to discipline, and the only way that could be effected was to make an order for his detention in a Borstal institution..' Greer was committed to a-Borstal, institution for two years. '...:■ It was mentioned that .Gibbs had made restitution ,o£ an amount' stolen, and in view, of all ..the circumstances he was admitted to probation for two years. He was ordered to'pay'the costs of the pvosecution, £2 is, within two months. "Let this be a .warning to you," said his Honour, addressing Gibbs. "Be honest and straightforward in the future." A LENIENT VIEW. In the case of Eric Philip Lysaght, warehouseman, aged 20', his Honour said he thought he would be justified under the circumstances in taking the lenient view recommended by the Probation Officer. Tho accused's previous character, said his Honour, appeared to have been good. The chief thing said against him was that he was somewhat irresponsible, and apparently he had "been led into the offence to wliich he hud pleaded guilty (breaking and entering and theft) by someone with a stronger mind. Lysaght, for whom Mr. A. J. Mazengarb appeared, was convicted and ordered- to come up for sentence within twelve months if called upon, and was ordered to pay (.lie costs of the prosecution, £1 13s,.within four months. - . . ■ OFFENCE AGAINST GIRL. . Alexander Kyle, alias,M'Kny, a baker,, aged 20, was sentenced in tho Supreme Court to-day by .the Chief Justico,_ Sir Michael Myers, to IS months' imprisonment with hard labour on a charge oC having indecently assaulted a girl. Mr. W. E. Leicester appeared for the accused, and urged that tho case, serious though it was, was not one of the most serious of its kind. His Honour said that the offence was not one that was to be dealt with lightly. It was-not anything like as. serious as unfortunately were most of the cases of its class that came before the Court. Although harm might, not be serious" in its immediate effects,'• oue never, knew what, harm was done in other respects, apart'altogether from physical harm. *