JUDGE’S HARD TASK
BURGLARY AND ARSON CASE.
HEAVY SENTENCES IMPOSED:
(Per Press Association. —Copyright.)
WELLINGTON, Monday.
“I have frequently heard judges say from their scats in this Court that the sentencing of prisoners is the most unpleasant part, probably the only unpleasant part, of a judge’s duty. Already I have found reason to feel its correctness. Men like you coming before this Court on a serious charge is difficult to conceive, ’ ’ remarked Mr M, Myers, Chief Justice, today, "When sentencing Thomas Gordon, aged 21, for breaking, entering, theft and arson, George Wilfred Ryan, aged 29, and Richard Ryan, aged 26, for receiving, and Hewitt Allen Capon for receiving.
His Honour said probation was out of the question. Gordon was sentenced to five years' gaol with hard labour; George Eyan to two years' gaol with hard labour; Hie hard Eyan to 18 month with hard labour, and Capon to 15 months with hard labour.
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Northern Advocate, 21 May 1929, Page 7
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