YOUNG MAN'S RECORD

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 15

YOUNG MAN'S RECORD

ARRIVED AS STOWAWAY

" COUNTRY NOT IMPROVED "

Looking at the -record before him of Philipl Gordon Brazier,' aged 25, in the Supreme Court today, Mr. Justice Blair said that apparently the prisoner' was-a stowaway in 1930; and' this country had not been improved by his arrival. Brazier was found guilty yesterday afternoon on two-charges..of theft anil on a charge;of breaking, entering, and theft of cigarettes and tobacco.from the Hawke's Bay Farmers' Co-op. Stores at Bamieviike. He was sentenced by Mr. Justice Blair, today to two years' hard labour. . ■....■ Mr. J. D. Willis'said he realised it was difficult to plead on behalf of the prisoner. Through unemployment Brazier had had a great deal of time on his hands, and in such circumstances a''matt/of his'type was more prone to fall into mischief than if lie were busy; Counsel said he bad seen the list of the prisoner's previous convictions, and he would like to point out that none involved dishonesty. There was the further fact that ou the present charges Brazier had.been in-custody for just over one month.' _".--. In passing .sentence,- his- Honour said he thought-Brazier had-properly been found guilty by the jury. He was probably not i the only one involved in the' offences, but, at the same: time, he must have known the risk he was taking. George Albert Edwards, who was charged. conjointly with Brazier, was found not guilty yesterday afternoon,'and was,. discharged. '-'. : . . / .':