The Penalty for Crime

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7103, 11 March 1933, Page 7

The Penalty for Crime

TOO MANY GANGSTER PICTURES SAYS JUDGE. Per Press Association WELLINGTON, Mar. 10. The following prisoners were sentenced by His Honour Mr Justice Reed. Edwin Edwards for indecent assault on male, three charges, years’ imprisonment, concurrent, to be followed by a year’s reformative treatment. Robert William Reay, breaking, entering and theft, two years’ hard labour. James Cunningham Parker and James Edward White, breaking, entering and theft, twelve months’ hard labour. Marsh Kaimoana, breaking, entering and theft at Wairoa, twelve months’ reformative detention. His Honour romarked that prisoner was an educated Maari who attributed his lapses to liquor and he would be well advised to leave it alone.

Frederick Howard Davis, causing a person to receive a letter with intent to extort money, three years’ probation. Accused was ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution 23s and to be debarred from attending picture shows for a year. His Honour mentioned that prisoner’s youth was bad and though the probation officer gave him a good character, the bombastic language in the letter satisfied His Honour that prioner should be troated as having the metal capacity of a child who had been allowed to see too many gangster pictures.