ARMED WITH BLUDGEON

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22024, 5 August 1933, Page 7

ARMED WITH BLUDGEON

ECHO OF SEAMEN’S STRIKE TERM OF IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED. (Pee United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 4. Three prisoners were sentenced this afternoon by Mr Justice Reed. Counsel for Terence Welsh Flynn, a seaman, aged 23, suggested that in view’ of the circumstances existing at the time of the prisoner’s offence and his previous good character the case was one in which his Honor might consider the granting of probation. Flynn had been found guilty with a recommendation to leniency on a charge of being a rogue and vagabond in that he was found during the seamen’s Strike armed with a bludgeon with felonious intent.

His Honor said he agreed with the jury’s verdict. He would take the jury’s recommendation into consideration and would not impose as long a sentence as he might otherwise have done. He could not release the 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 serve as a warning to people found in possession of weapons such as that in possession of the prisoner that they must go to gaol. The prisoner would be sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. Alexander Sutherland, for knowingly receiving a stolen bicycle saddle, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour.

Percival Norman George Archer, aged 45, for indecent assault on a boy and attempted indecent assault on a boy was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment with hard labour.