PRISONERS SENTENCED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17965, 15 December 1921, Page 4

PRISONERS SENTENCED.

< ,1 , • o ONE FOR REFORMATORY. ANOTHER PLACED Oft 'PROBATI|; ftwo prisoners ytere sentenced by lit". Justice Herdman at the Supreme Ooiut v yesterday. \ A young man, Percy Reginald Hill, •. pleaded guilty to a charge of havjag obtained £24 by false pretences at One;; hunga. His Honor said that acccsed had been convicted of theft and admitted.to probation at Christcburah,- but;..thai leniency had been abused. Accused-had . committed a very mean offence by stealing the money from a friend. A sentow. of two years' reformativo detention- fru imposed. When William Robert Curson was called' Mr. Singer said the offence of breafing; . and entering-and theft to which the>fe\ cused had pleaded guilty, was not serious as might appear. Accuseds* \ yottng man. with a wife *nd child, wmunder the influence of'litwc at the ton*; he entered the house, ami restitution baa been made. His Honor said that wane. tie police report was favourable, and probation had been recommended, he 1 had in- , formation that accused had been a headstrong young man and given bis people endless trouble. He vould be dealt mm leniently, hc-jvover, and sentenced to few years' probation, so that even if be w«» | well behaved he vould launder Bteiet : supervision for at least two years. ;., :■■■'•: