AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9856, 25 July 1914, Page 7

AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT.

(Pre Pbkrp Vssocution ■ Ull „ AUCKLAND, July 23. At the Supreme Court to-day % young m * n . w j!°? e name was abbreviated on the A? Clft Vi as H ' M - Moor, alias Graham, Ahas \\ Uliaipson, convicted of charges of ? j .u Pl 7 tene m and Asking and entering and theft at Te Awamutu, pleaded for leniency.l ; "I give this sentence in the hope that withsyour ybtffch sferll-before will reclaim ywrselff M <said'i the Judge, i n n*V sentence of nine months' hard-labour to be followed by three months' reformative treatment. A middle aged man, described as George Allen, alias Nella, was convicted of a charge of false pretences at New Plymouth Pointing out that between 1899 and 1909 the prisoner had been convicted of fortyone different offences, the last of which earned Vim three months' hard labour, the Judge passed a sentence of nine months' hard labour, and again declared Allen to be an habitual criminal. "I was declared an habitual criminal at 18 years of age," declared Sydney Herbert Gordon Doyle, who was convicted of breaking and entering and theft at New Plymouth, and who, according to his statement, is now only 22 years of age. The Judge decided to hand back the man to the Prisons Board, and again declared him an habitual criminal. Norman Johnston, aged 22, entered the dock on five convictions of burglary at Auckland. Pointing out that the present convictions were all of entering dwellinghouses at night, his Honour sentenced the prisoner to two years' concurrent imprisonment on each indictment, and declared him to be an habitual criminal. Duncan Alexander Calderwood, aged 21, convicted of breaking and entering at Morrinsville, handed a statement to the Judge, in which he asked to be placed in charge of a brother in Australia. He was sentenced to three years' reformative treatment, so that the Prisons Board could deal with any bona fide application.