PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17460, 3 May 1920, Page 6

PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME.

FIVE OFFENDERS SENTENCED.

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TWO YOUNG LADS BEFORE COURT

A number of prisoners: appeared for sentence before Mr. Justice Sim at the Supreme Court on Saturday. Robert John Watkinß, who was re. cently sentenced for fraud and declared an habitual criminal, appeared for sentence on two similar charges. The Judge said he could .not grant reformative treat, mont for which the prisoner asked. His Honor imposed sentences of six months on each charge, to be cumulative and date from the expiration of the sentences the prisoner is now serving. William John Marriott (Mr. R. P. Tole) appeared on charges of theft, false pretences and forgery. Counsel said that we prisoner, after creditable war iicrvice, had trouble with his wife, and in it spirit of spite raised money on his father-in-law's furniture and afterwards stole two suits of clothes from a boarder in the house. Major McK. Gcddes having stated that the accused had been much sought after by officers to be their batman, the Judge remanded the accused for th« probation officer's report. Two boys, Ivan D. Cunningham, aged 15, and George McCullougb, aged 16, had pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and theft, and on the recommendation of the juvenile probation officer Canningham was committed to the Auckland Probation Home, and McCullough was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with a view to his being committed to the Weraroa Training Farm.

A young Maori. Rennta Moana, who had obtained money by forgery, was sentenced to reformative treatment for a period of not more than three years.