Penalty Of Crime

Northern Advocate, 27 July 1938, Page 3

Penalty Of Crime

[Per Press Association. Copyright .] AUCKLAND, Tuesday. At the Supreme Court this morning, John Frederick Copley was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with Hard labour for negligently driving a motor car so as to cause death. His driving license was cancelled for ...three years.. The ofl'cnce, said Mr • Justice Callan, was not the worst of ■ ■ Its kind, neither was it the least serious. There was in it something more than a momentary relaxation of attention. Edward Donovan and Kenneth William Edward Bates, for breaking and entering a Rotorua countinghouse with intent to blow up a safe with gelignite, came before Mr Justice Fair for sentence. Donovan was also charged with breaking into a Taupiri store, while Bates was charged with having escaped from custody. The judge said that Donovan was to be declared a habitual criminal and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. There seemed to be some hope for Bates, whose record was much lighter. He was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for breaking and entering and six months more for escaping from custody. Walter Alfred Church, aged 20, was sentenced to three years’ reformative detention for a serious assault on an elderly woman in the Drury district.