PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 354, 23 March 1922, Page 5

PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME.

SENTENCES IMPOSED AT

AUCKLAND

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March T>. Several prisoners were sentenced at the Supreme Court by Mr Justice Herdnian. (ha rle Henry Glover, on two elmr ,r es ot forgery at Auckland m October. 1920, and a breach ot probation was sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Addressing the prisoner. His Honour, referring to a plea tor leniency. Sil i ( j- “Regarding your war record, that is no excuse for the committal ot orfences. As a Minister ot the ( rown. had some experience with soldiers, and [ found that most of the men who returned from the war led reputable ives--1 should say HO per cent. «'t hem settled down and are now reputable citizens. It is no excuse why 1 should abstain from punishing yon. Men must „bev their probation orders. 1 under,stand that iminv who are placed on probation treat such leniency very lightly. Let this be a warning to all those at present on prolmtion that it is not to jo abused.’’ . .. , Other sentences were,:—-James I iancis McMullen (breaking, entering am. theft), three months’ imprisonment; Norman Stewart Ward (breaking, entering and theft), three years probation-" Andrew Peter Jensen (lorgcry). six months’ reformative treatment tit the end of the present sentence o two years’ reformative treatment: Allred Hinton (two charges of forgery and altering at Auckland and two similar offences til Wanganui). 18 months hard hi hour.