GAOL THE PENALTY

Evening Star, Issue 21825, 14 September 1934, Page 11

GAOL THE PENALTY

BURGLARY AND THEFT Appearing in the. Supreme Court tiii* morning before His Honour Mr Justice Kennedy for sentence on on* charge of breaking and entering and two charges of theft, Robert Kirknes* was sentenced to eighteen months 1 imprisonment. The accused, who was not represented bv counsel slated from th* dock that" he had helped the police all he could and that every article had been returned. The. Crown Prosecutor (Mr F. B. Adams) stated that 'the accused had not been as helpful to the police an he should have been. When he found out that a constable was appoaebuig he disappeared and hid valuabi* jewellery before he was searched. This jewellery was found by somebody else after the accused had been taken away. He might have told the polic* something after they had little mor* to )earu. , His Honour said it appeared that the accused had been drifting sinca 1931, and it was. his first appcaranca for crime. Previously probation had beeii extended to hm, and he had failed to comply with the terms. » On the charge of breaking and entering ha would be sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment with hard labour. On each of the other charge* (the theft of jewellery and the theft of cutlery) he would be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, all the sentences to be concurrent.