PENALTY OF CRIME

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11436, 5 February 1923, Page 5

PENALTY OF CRIME

PRISONERS SENTENCED SEVERAL FOR REFORMATIVE TREATMENT. BREAKING AND ENTERING. A number of prisoners appeared before Mr Justice Chapman in the Supreme Court on Saturday to be sentenced. One of them was William Joseph Gee. the son of a Chinese chef and a white woman. He was ordered to he detained for 12 months for reformative treatment. Against him were a dozen charges of breaking and entering and theft. UuHT SENTENCES INEFFECTIVE. Frederick George Lester and Walter Reid Hill, who had pleaded guilty to charges of breaking and entering and theft, also appeared. His Honour said that slight sentences which had been served m the past did not seem to have had the desired effect, and the present sentence would be one of twelve months’ reformative treatment. OFFENCE AT TAIHAPE. Clarence Amos Woods appeared because of an offence of breaking and entering and theft at Taihape. He was said to he an absconder from the Weraroa Training Farm and to have been in trouble before. The court ordered that he should he detained for three years for reformative purposes. NINE MONTHS’ DETENTION. Edward .Cecil Hatfield, whose offence was breaking and entering, was placed in the dock. His Honour said that, making allowances for the fact that prisoner had been in gaol for six or seven weeks, he thought the best course was to sentence him to nine months’ reformative treatment.