WILSON SENTENCED

Evening Star, Issue 22329, 4 May 1936, Page 12

WILSON SENTENCED

AN ADDITIONAL TWELVE MONTHS TO BE SERVED AT EXPIRATION OF FIVE i || YEARS’ TERM | |Peu United Pc.ess Association.] j__ AUCKLAND, May 4. ! ffl Stating that lie seemed to he a dan- Hsi gcrous criminal and that since Jus ‘MI escape he had committed further ;|g crimes. Mr Justice Fair this morning 9 sentenced Thomas William Wilson | iffla (33) to 12 months’ imprisonment, to , ||| bo served at the expiration of the five iii years which ho was serving when ho | |g|| escaped from custody in Auckland in December, 1931. Wilson was arrested ||| on the Mariposa recently when return- ||| mg to Australia after his deportation ;g| from America. _ ln| Appearing for the accused Mr Noble ||| asked that he be allowed to go to Aus- M His Honour: That in effect is a re- gm quest that 1 should release him from B serving the balance of his five years’ |||l sentence. e® Mr Noble: It may be that it is a mat- ||| ter between what is right and what is E|m expedient. H His Honour said that correspond- tat once between Wilson when in America |g|| and the New Zealand authorities as K|| quoted by counsel merely conveyed the Us tact that Wilson would not lie per- am initted to return to New Zealand, and |j|| that if he did lie would he arrested B and have to complete the.balance of his sentence. The plea made by counsel 99 might perhaps be addressed to some i|| other body at a later date. The only ||| fact in tlie accused’s favour was that “f" there was no form of violence in his gP escape. Km