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PRISONERS SENTENCED, Preen Association.
AUCKLAND, February 28. At the Supreme Court, Patrick Dunn, a youth found guilty of stealing six bicycles, was admittedto probation for two years conditional on his finding two sureties of £2OO each for his good behaviour. The judge said this System had been found successful in dealing with youthful law-breakers. Henry William Swift Parton and Phillip Gillard wer sentenced for theft from a railway station, Parton to six dJoriths’, being declared , a habitual criminal, and Gillard to six months. George Irving, whom the judge doscribed as a natural criminal, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment on each of a series of charges of forgery and utteringh and breaking and entering, the terms to .be concurrent, and was ordered to undergo five years’ reformative treatment. Percy Mercer, who committed a breach of his probation order, waa sentenced to twelve months’ reformative treatment. CHRISTCHURCH, February 28. In the Supreme Court, Frank Kissel, aged thirty-five, who pleaded guilty to a charge of indecent assault on a little girl, was sentenced to imprisonment for’a year and reformative detention for four years.
Patrick Egan, aged sixty-eight, similarly charged, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Sentence on Frederick Bradshaw, guilty of theft of money, was deferred to enable the Crown to confirm allegations concerning his past record.
WANGANUI, February 28. A man named Hughes, charged with theft, and with nearly thirty previous convictions, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment, and declared an habitual criminal.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8367, 1 March 1913, Page 14
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