ARMED WITH WEAPON

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21562, 5 August 1933, Page 12

ARMED WITH WEAPON

SEAMAN SENT TO PRISON JUDGE'S SERIOUS VIEW [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Friday When Terence Welsh Flynn, a seaman, aged 23, appeared for sentence in tho Supremo Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Reed, counsel for prisoner suggested that in view of the circumstances at the time of prisoner's offence and his previous good character, the case was one in which His Honor might consider granting probation. Flynn had been found guilty with a recommendation to leniency on a chargo of being a roguo and vagabond, in that he was found during tho seamen's strike armed with a bludgeon with felonious intent. His Honor said ho agreed with the jury's verdict. He would take the jury's recominehdation into consideration and would not impose as long a sentence as ho might otherwise have done. He could not release tho prisoner on probation—the matter was too serious. The Courts of New Zealand would not put up with violence. He proposed to inflict a sentence which, although it might be considered lenient, would servo as a warning to people found in possession of weapons, such as that in tho possession of the prisoner, that they must go to gaol. Tho sentence imposed was three months' imprisonment.