BREAKING AND ENTERING

Evening Star, Issue 22892, 25 February 1938, Page 8

BREAKING AND ENTERING

PRISONERS SENTENCED Sydney Joseph Samways and Ralph Thomas Webb appeared before Mr Justice Kennedy in the Supreme Court this morning for sentence on joint and separate cases of breaking and entering shops and thieving therefrom. Mr J. 6. Warrington, who appeared for the prisoner Samways, in asking for leniency for his client, suggested that the prisoner had been led into the crimes by another man who was now in custody. Learned counsel further stressed the fact that the amount involved in the thefts was small and that prisoner had been in custody for a month since his arrest. Mr R. L. Fairmaid, for Webb, said that prisoner was only a boy, being 22 years of age. He had not previously been to court, and, learned Counsel suggested, had acted under the influence of one or both of the other men implicated. . The Crown Prosecutor (Mr F. B. Adams) pointed out to His Honour that the type of crime in which rental cars were involved was figuring with increasing frequency. His Honour ordered Samways to be detained for reformative purposes for a period of one year and nine months. In respect of Webb; His Honour remarked that he thought the prisoner was more deeply implicated than his counsel had said, but he would take into consideration prisoner’s age and order him to be detained at the Borstal Institution for a period not exceeding two years.