PRISONERS SENTENCED AT WELLINGTON.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 17. Found guilty yesterday on thirteen counts involving the theft of sums amounting to about £440, Joseph Henry Pike came before Mr Justice Smith todav for sentence. His Honor said that had the jury known that prisoner had received sentences of three and five years’ reformative detention for theft on previous occasions they would not perhaps have recommended mercy. He thought he would be giving due weight to the circumstances of accused’s employment and the jury’s recommendation with a sentence year’s imprisonment, to be followed by not more than a year s reformative treatment. Clarence Raymond Mackay was admitted to a further, period of two years’ probation for a breach of his probation order provided he paid two guineas costs. Claude Capron Breach had his probation order term extended for four months and he was ordered to pay costs amounting to £2 2s.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18465, 17 May 1928, Page 9
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152PRISONERS SENTENCED AT WELLINGTON. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18465, 17 May 1928, Page 9
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