ARMED WITH BLUDGEON.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 833, 5 August 1933, Page 31 (Supplement)

ARMED WITH BLUDGEON.

Seaman Sent to Prison at Wellington. Her Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 4. Three prisoners were sentenced this afternoon by Mr Justice Reed. Counsel for Terence Welsh Flynn, a seaman, aged twenty-three, suggested in view of the circumstances existing at the time of prisoner’s offence artd his previous good character, the case was one in which his Honor might consider granting probation. F'lynn had been found guilty with a recommendation to leniency, on a charge of being a rogue and vagabond, in that he was found during the seamen’s strike armed with a bludgeon with felonious intent. His Honor said he agreed with the jury’s verdict. He would take the jury’s recommendation into consideration and would not impose as long a sentence as he might otherwise have done. He could not release prisoner on probation. The matter was too serious. The courts of New Zealand would not put up with violence. He proposed to inflict a sentence, which, although it might be considered lenient, would serve as a warning to people found in possession of weapons such as that in the possession ot prisoner that they must go to gaol. The sentence imposed was three months. Alexander Sutherland, for knowingly receiving a stolen bicycle saddle, was sentenced to six months’ hard labour. Percival Norman George Archer, aged forty-five, for indecent assault on a boy and attempted indecent assault on a boy, was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment with hard labour.