PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME.
FORMER COURT REGISTRAR. REFORMATIVE DETENTION. [fiV TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] WELLINGTON, Thursday. Prisoners wore sentenced in the Supremo Court to-day by Mr. Justice Sim. George Hutchason Lang, aged 46 years, late registrar of v the Supreme Court at Palmuqpton North, who had pleaded »uilty to the, theft of money as a servant of the Justice Department, was ordered to be detained for reformative purposes for three years. The probation officer did not recommend probation. '■l see that his mother says he is steeped in the pernicious habit of cigarette smoking," said His Honor in ordering Raymond Dundas Gordon, aged 18 years, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery and uttering, to be detained in the Borstal Institute at Invercargill for three years. Dire necessity was the explanation given by counsel for Edmund Ellis Edwards, aged 23, who was sactenced to three years' reformative detention, having • pleaded guilty to breaking, catering and theft. Fie was said to hav» unsuccessfully applied for between 20 and 30 jobs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19447, 1 October 1926, Page 17
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