AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18511, 23 March 1922, Page 5

AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT

PRISONERS SENTENCED. (Pjsb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 22. Several prisoners were sentenced at the Supremo Court to-day by Mr Justice Herdman. Charles Henrv Glover, on two charges of forgery at Auckland in October, 1900, and breach of a probation order, was sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Addressing the prisoner, his Honor, referring to a plea for leniency, said; “Regarding your war record, that is no excuse for (ho committal of offences. As a Minister of tho Crown, I had some experience with soldiers, and I found that most of them who returned from the war led reputable lives. I should say 90 per cent of them settled down and were now reputable citizens. Your war record is no excuse, and there is no reason why I should abstain from punishing you. Men must obey their probation order. I understand that many who are placed on probation treat such leniency very lightly. Lot this 1» a warning to all those at present on probation. It is not to be abused.” “Tho offence you committed against your sister is a most disgusting one,” his Honor said to tho Maori, Hohepa Tunu Pomare, who was found guilty of incest at Whangarei. “If you were a European I would have given you a long sentence, but you are a Maori, and I suppose I must consider your peculiar ideas of morality. I shall send you to gaol for a short period. You will he imprisoned for six months with hard labour. Tho prisoner asked his Honor to give him probation. “No, I shall not do that,” said nis Honor. Other sentences were; James Francis M'.Mullan, breaking, entering, and theft, three months’ hard labour; _ Norman Stewart Ward, breaking, entering, and theft, three years’ probation; Andrew Peter Jensen, forgery, six months’ reformative treatment at the end of his present sentence of two years’ reformative treatment; Alfred Hinton, two charges of forgery and uttering at Auckland and two similar offences at Whangarei, 18 months’ hard labour.