PRISONERS SENTENCED
MAORI IGNORANCE OF LAW. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, April 11A number of prisoners was sentenced at the Supreme Court to-day-Three Maoris, from an isolated Native settlement in the Bay of Islands, admitted concealment of birth of a still-born child. Counsel said that accused appeared ignorant of the law, and they had followed the custom of burying the body in a tapu ground. The Judge, after a general warning, fined James Munn £5 and admitted Isabella and Bella Munn to probation for one year. Janies and Isabella were the grand parents and Ella was the mother of the infant.
As a sequel to an audacious theft of a safe containing £4l from a city shop last month, Alexander Joseph O’Brien, 19, Ted Richard Lewis Cormack, 16|, admitted the offence. The safe was bodily removed, then opened and buried in a section.
The Judge said that it was not a case for probation. He sentenced O’Brien to three years at Borstal, and Cormack to two years’.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 April 1932, Page 2
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