SENTENCED FOR CRIME

Evening Star, Issue 18034, 31 July 1922, Page 8

SENTENCED FOR CRIME

REFORMATIVE DETENTION FOR “COMRADE” PARKER.

[Per United Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, July 51

In the Supreme Court Ralph Emery Smell, an ex-Civil servant, for the theft of Government moneys totalling £34, was admitted to probation for two years. Andrew Ernest Neilson, for forgery and attempted uttering, was sentenced to reformative detention for a term not exceed 1 - ing tnirec years. Joseph Peters (a Syrian boy) was brought up for sentence on charges of breaking and entering and theft at Eketahuna while on probation for a previous offence. The judge said the boy had been badly treated on tho farm where he was working, having been worked like a slave and poorly ' fed. He was admitted to two years’ probation. William Parker, who deliberately smashed plateglass windows at Stewart Dawson’s shop, and who is now serving one mouth for malting seditious utterances, was ordered three years’ reformative detention. David Davies, who was caught redhanded on breaking into Chief-detective Kemp’s residence, admitted this and thirteen other charges of burglary. Ho was sentenced to reformative detention for five years. David Broughton, a Maori lad, for breaking and entering at Palmerston North, received two years’ reformative detention.