BURGLARIES GROW MORE FREQUENT.
MUST FIND OTHER PENALTIES, JUDGE SAYS.
At almost every sitting of the Supremos Court when prisoners are sentenced, reference is made to increasing prevalence of breaking and entering and theft.
This phase of criminality was mentioned at to-day’s sitting by Mr Brown, who represented the Crown Prosecutor. He said that seven prisoners were on to-day’s list for sentence, and six of them were charged with breaking and entering.
Air Justice Adams said that there was no doubt as to the increase of these crimes. Obviously, the Court must take some other means of dealing with the offenders. The heaviest sentences for breaking and en-
entering to-day were two years’ imprisonment and two years’ reformative treatment. Of one prisoner, who committed the offence during a drinking bout, his Honor said that he was not a criminal in the ordinary sense, and admitted him to •probation.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17757, 29 January 1926, Page 7
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