PRISONER’S OFFENCES

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 78, Issue 7017, 9 February 1949, Page 7

PRISONER’S OFFENCES

INCIDENTS AT WAIKERIA VNUSUAL SENTENCE IMPOSED Pleas of guilty were entered by Francis Lawrence Schdroski when he was charged in the Te Awansutu Court before Mr S. L. Paterso;., t<M. yesterday with using personal violence to an officer at the Waikeria Borstal, and secondly with attempting to escape from that institution. Schdroski pleaded guilty to both charges. Sergeant A. Bisset stated that Schdroski was serving a sentence of three years reformative detention at Waikeria. On the date of the charge Schdroski was one of a gang of men who wre detailed io mix manure under the supervision of the officer concerned. The men were .ordered to take off their coats and Schdroski refused to do so with the resuit that the incidents named in the charges occurred. Schdroski nad nothing to say. When the Magistrate asked the superintendent of the Borstal what marks Schdroski would have to lose to forfeit one month’s remission of his sentence, Mr McMillan said that the marks system was not in operation at Waikeria. Reports were sent to the Prisons Board who acted accordingly. Continuing Mr McMillan said that since the offence Schdroski had behaved well. He (Mr McMillan) thought that Schdroski had worked himself up over a previous sentence of six months. Schdroski was of a nervous temperment. He was a good worker but on that occasion he had lost his head. The Magistrate said that had the marks system been in operation he. would have deprived Schdroski cf sufficient marks so that he would have lost one months remission for good conduct. “I do not wish to penalise you unduly seeing that your conduct has been good since the offences you are charged with” said Mr Paterson in sentencing Schdroski to be put on bread and water for 48 hours.