PERJURER ADMONISHED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18170, 16 August 1922, Page 6

PERJURER ADMONISHED.

AGGRAVATION OF OFFENCE.

In sentencing the prisoner George Leslie Cookson to three years' reformative detention at the Borstal Institute at Invercargill, at the Supreme Court in Wellington; the Chief Justice, Sir Kobert Stout, spoko with grave displeasure of the "deliberate lies" which Cookson had' told in the ■witness-box under oath. For that misdemeanour, said His Honor, it was within the power of the Court to order the prisoner's trial on a charge of perjury; but, instead of doing that, the prisoner's aggravation of his offence of theft would be taken into consideration by His Honor in the sentence he was about to impose. Cookson had, it may be remembered, broken into the Foresters' Arms Hotel, and had stoicn £146 from <ho office safe, the money being contained in two glass mugs always kept in the safe. It was by the finger-prints discovered upon those mugs that tho prisoner had left a plain record of his connection with the crime, and His Honor earnestly admonished him to tell the Prisons Board what he had done with the money.