SUPREME COURT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18584, 19 December 1934, Page 15

SUPREME COURT

WELLINGTON-SENTENCES •• .v •».. - v . » u I*/,'** V a Ax' vl >■ * TOWN CLERK GAOLED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The following prisoners were sentenced by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, to-day: James William Burton, 20, and Charles Arthur Revell, 21, breaking arid' entering and theft, two' ' two years’ reformative detention; Rangi Martin, forgery, six f lhouths’ f ham be cumulative upon, A sentence now 'being served; Neil Campbell, burglary, 18 months’ imprisonttilhit Herbert Moptefoy ’Tan&myy 1 theft of unemployment funds at.Waipukiirauf two years’ reformative detention; Christ tian Mathieson Gronn, in respect to the same transaction, 18 months’ reformative detention; James Rodney Reardon, ! sending ai telegram with a threat to kill, ordered to coriie up if” called upon within .12 months.

In Reardon’s case, it was urged that his intention was to stop a woman drinking,'" and there was no intention of carrying out the threat. The judge took the view that it was not a case for sending the prisoner to gaol, but lie warned him that ho must, behave. The prisoner has to pay the costs of the prosecution.' In regard to the Waipukurau prisoners, eloquent pleas were made on the ground of the pressure both men had been under financially, but the judge said it was quite plairf that the circumstances were Such as to' prevent the benefits of probation being extended to dither 'prisoner. While counsel was speaking, the judge pointed out that there were really a series of offences over a period of 10 months, including forgery. The judge remarked that Tinsley, who was town" clerk, really 1 drew Gronn in.