POKENO AFFAIR.
FRISONEHS SENTENCED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Feb. 19. Of five prisoners who came before Mr Justice Calla.n for sentence, three were declared by him to be habitual criminals in view of their previous records of convictions. A salesman, aged 26,, Clement Robert Laiyson, and a labourer, aged 41, George Frederick Murphy, wlio had been cauglit breaking into a store at Poke no, stood jointly charged with breaking and entering by night with intent to commit a crime and with having in their possession instruments of house-breaking. There was a further charge against Murphy alone of having in liis possession an explosive substance for the purpose of committing a crime. Mr Sullivan, appearing for both men, said that friends of Lawson outside the Dominion had undertaken to give him work there. His Honour said that raised a question that had been discussed before. “1 do not think the New Zealand Courts should facilitate the transhipnient and unloading on to . otnor Courts of our misfits,” he continued. “AA T e produced them.” Each would be sentenced to a year's imprisonment with hard labour and declared an habitual criminal.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 69, 20 February 1937, Page 16
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188POKENO AFFAIR. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 69, 20 February 1937, Page 16
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