PAYING THE PENALTY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17009, 6 April 1923, Page 7

PAYING THE PENALTY.

PRISONERS SENTENCED. Several prisoners were brought up for sentence before his Honor Air Justice Adams to-day. HIS A 1 OTHER’S MONEY. Robert Alexander Donaldson, forty years of age, was brought up for stealing money belonging to his mother which lie had dug up in the garden. (Mr A. T. Donnelly, Crown Prosecuter, saicl that, £124 12s 4d had been returned, and a sum of £ls 7s 8d still was missing. The prisoner thought that it was all in the family. The probation officer recommended probation. Donaldson was admitted to probation for two years, on condition that he made restitution of the missing money, paid £1 11s co&ts of the prosecution, and took out a prohibition order against himself for two years. BAD RECORDS. Andrew Deer and Frederick William Thompson were br night up for forgery, four charges, and Deer for breaking and entering and theft. Air Donnelly said that both prisoners had unsatisfactory records. There were six previous convictions against Deer, all for thelt except one, which was for manslaughter. Deer was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for breaking - and entering and theft, to *be detained for notmore than three years for reformative treatment at the end of the sentence. For forgery and theft he was sentenced to two years, to be concurrent with the other sentence. Thompson, who, his Honor said, practically had qualified to be declared an habitual criminal, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, and to lie detained for three years at the end of the sentence. His Honor ordered that out of a sum found on Deer, £1 12s should be returned to a domestic help, whom he robbed. BROKE HIS PROBATION. John Austin, for whom Air R. Twyneham appeared, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for breaking the conditions of bis probation. He had been, convicted of false pretences and had failed to pay sums provided for when he was admitted to probaticn. His Honor said that extreme leniency had been shown to him. REMANDED. In regard to a charge against Cyril Eugene Walden, twenty-three years of age, of theft of a watch from an hotel bedroom, Mr Donnelly said that the offence evidently was committed when Walden was under the influence of drink. He had been convicted of wilful damage, failing to provide, breach of the tramway regulations, and drunkenness, but previously he had not been convicted of any serious criminal offence. His Honor said that he would not sentence Walden until he had more particulars of his previous offences. He would be remanded till May 7, at 11 a.m.