CRIME IN AUCKLAND.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16175, 11 July 1923, Page 3

CRIME IN AUCKLAND.

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AUCKLAND, this day. "It is difficult to know what to do with these boys and young men who are coming here for breaking, entering and theft," said Mr. Justice Herdmun, when ten young men, whoso ages ranged from 16 to 26 years, came before him for sentence on dishonesty charges. "This procession is a lamentable business. Tho police and Justico Department cannot) check it. by punishments. There is no doubt the fault lies in the home training. Tho Wys do not seemi to be brought up as they wero a. few years ago." Jack O'Meara, aged 25, with n bad record, received a, gontence of (jwo years' imprisonment with hard labor for breaking and entering. The other cases were mostly dealt with as probationary.

Joseph Thurston, .a ship's fireman, for wounding with intent the fourth engineer of the Arawa by hitting him out the head with a spanner, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labor. His Honor said it was a deliberate, unjustifiable, and cowardly assault, It was a wonder the engineer was not killed. Mr. Justice Herdmam sentenced Ernest Harold McLean, who admitted lie had committed bigamy, to eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard labor. William Arthur Perry, who went through a. form of marriage with a woman after his wife had* deserted him and his two children, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if railed on. The wife was now living •with another man.