CRIMINAL SITTINGS

Evening Star, Issue 17926, 23 March 1922, Page 9

CRIMINAL SITTINGS

AUCKLAND. Several prisoners wore sentenced at the Supreme Court yesterday by Mr Justice Herdman. Charles Henry Gloveu on two charges of forgery at Auckland in October, 1920, and breach of a probation order, was sentenced' to two years’ hard 1 hioor. Addressing the prisoner, His Honor, referring to a plea for leniency, said; "Regarding your war record, that is no excuse for the committal of offences. As a- Minister of the Crown I had some experience with soldiers, mid I found that most of thoni who returned from the war led reputable lives. I should say £0 per cent, of them settled down, and were now reputable citizens. Your war record is no excuse, and there is no reason why I should abstain from punishing you. Men must obey their probation order. I understand’ that many who are placed on probation treat such leniency very lightly.*; Let this bo a warning to all those at present on probation. It is not to be abused.’’ " Hie offence you committed against your sister Js a most disgusting one,” His Honor said to the Maori, Hohepa 'ianu Pomare, who was found guilty of incest at Whnngarci. “If you were a European I would b,avo given you a long sentence ; hut you arc a Maori, and I suppose I must consider your peculiar ideas of morality. I shall send you to gaol for a short period’. You will bo imprisoned for six months, with hard labor.” : Other sentences were: James Francis M'Mullan, breaking, entering, and theft, three months’ imprisonment; Norman Stewart Ward, breaking, entering, and theft, three years’ probation; Andrew Peter Jensen, forgery, six months’ reformative treatment at the end 1 of Ids present sentence of two years’ reformative treatment; Alfred Hinton, two charges of forgery amt uttering at Auckland and two similar offences at Whangaxci, eighteen months’ imprisonment.