CRIME PUNISHED

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1937, Page 15

CRIME PUNISHED

PRISONERS SENTENCED

A warning that he would be declared a habitual criminal if he came before the Court again was given by Mr. Justice Smith in the Supreme Court yesterday to Peter McNicol, a baker and labourer, aged 24, who had pleaded guilty at ,Petone to nineteen charges of breaking and entering and theft, five charges of breaking and entering with intent to steal and one charge of attempted breaking and entering. He was sentenced to three years' hard labour. A similar warning was given to Frederick Walter McLennan, a motor mechanic, aged 33 (Mr. P. Verschaffclt), who had pleaded guilty at Wellington to obtaining goods valued at £80 12s Id by false pretences. He was sentenced to two years' hard labour. Ewin Luce, a dairy farmer, aged 57 (Mr. J. S. Hanna), was sentenced to one year's hard labour for incest at Palmerston North. Henry Allan, a salesman, aged 39 (Mr. J. D. Willis), for theft involving £1 A, was sentenced to" one year's reformative detention. He had pleaded guilty at Hawera. George Norman Farnsworth, a labourer and salesman, aged 23, who is at present serving four months' imprisonment, was sentenced to two years' reformative detention for false pretences at Wanganui.