"LIFTING THE WINDOW."

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13905, 12 November 1908, Page 5

"LIFTING THE WINDOW."

j A DANISH IMMIGRANT. | BY tELKOBAPH. —OWN" COBKiSf ONDEST.] 1 •' j Wet.lt vgtgu. Wednesday, j The Danish Government, and one of iip i subjects, who came to New Zealand as an i i mini gran,, were; distil**©*] fit the Supreme j Court today, when Mr. Justice Cooper i was pacing sentence on Fritz Peter Chris* j tophersou, 37 years of age, 'on a chavgc of J housebreaking ;uid theft from a. dwelling at- [ Blenheim. On being asked if he had any- ' thing to tsay, Cbristopheroon said be did i rot break into the house. He lifted tho ! window, and went in. His Honor explain- ; ed to him that that was breaking and en- | tering, according to law, and said, "But | you stole tlio goods Prisoner admitted ) that he did. ! Hia Honor said that, the probation officer's report, showed that prisoner had not been in tho Dominion very —only some three years — that he had not been convicted. here. Tho report stated, however, that prisoner had been sentenced to two year*' imprisonment in Copenhagen, and released at. the expiratiop of nine months, on condition that he came to the Dominion as a suitable immigrant. He thought that a matter of this kind should be looked into. A sentence or three years' imprisonment would be passed.