HERO IN DISGRACE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 46, 6 February 1920, Page 2

HERO IN DISGRACE.

SEVERE CASTIGATION. Auckland, Feb. 5. In the Supreme Court a man accused of robbery with violence, had to submit to severe castigation from His Honour, Justice Chapman. His Honour said: “It is most deplorable that a man who distinguished himself ac the front, getting an M.C.,’ should have behaved as accused had. Accused received £2OO deferred pay, and £lO7 gratuity, and in six months the whole of it was gone in riotous living. Three licensed houses were mentioned as principal places where this money was spent, and I intend to forward this evidence to the Minister-of Justice, whose business it will ibe to say what snouiu be done with the man who has distinguished himself, but has no"w disgraced himself in a manner that would disgrace the very swine themselves.” ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE. A DANGEROUS CHARACTER. Auckland, Feb. 5. At the Supreme Court, Charles Spittle and James Edward May were charged with assault and robbery. The jury found May guilty, but was unable to agree regarding Spittle. The judge characterised May- as a very dangerous character, one of the worst he had seen for some time. On the charge of the theft of a portmanteau. of which he had been previously convicted, .May was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with hard labour, and for assault and -robbery six years ’imprisonment with hard labour, the sentences to be concurrent.