SUPREME COURT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 23 March 1922, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

PRISONERS SENTENCED,

WARNING BY JUDGE.

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AUCKLAND, March 22. Several prisoners were sentenced dt the Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Herdman. Charles Henry Glover, on two charges of forgery at Auckland in October, 1920, and a breach of proba-y tion, was sentenced to two years' haqd labour. Addressing the prisoner, his Honor, in referring to the plea for leniency, said: "Regarding your war record, that is no excuse for the committal of offences. As Minister of the Crown I had some experience with soldiers, and I found most of the men who returned from the war led reputable lives. I should say that 90 per cent, of them settled down and are now reputable citizens. It is no excuse, and no reason why I should abstain from punishing you. Men must obey their probation orders. I understand that many who are placed on probation treat such leniency very lightly. Let this be a warning to all those at present on probation that it is not to be abused.' 3 ''The offence you commited against your sister is a most disgusting one," his Honor said to a Maori, Hohepa Tanu Pomare, who was found guilty of incest at Whangarei. "If you were a European I would have given you a long sentence, but youjtre a Maori, and I suppose I must consider your peculiar ideas of morality. I will" send you to gaol for a short period,. You will be imprisoned for six months with hard labour." Prisoner asked his Honor to give him probation. "No. I will not do that,'' said his Honor. Other sentences were: James Francis McMullen, for breaking and entering and theft, three months' hard labour; Norman Stewart Ward, for breaking and entering and theft, three years' probation; Andrew Peter Jensen, for forgery, six months' reformative treatment at the end of his present sentence of two years' reformative treatment; Alfred Hinton, on two charges of forgery and uttering at Auckland, and two ' similar offences at Whangarei, eighteen months' hard labour.