YOUNG MAN’S RECORD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 7

YOUNG MAN’S RECORD

ARRIVED AS STOWAWAY. “COUNTRY NOT IMPROVED.’* WELLINGTON, May «. Looking at the record before him of Philip Gordon Brazier, aged 25. in the Supreme Court to-day. Mr. Justice Blair said that apparently the prisoner was a, stowaway in 1930. and this country had not been improved by his arrival. Brazier was found guilty yesterday afternoon on two charges of theft and on a charge of breaking, entering and theft of cigarettes and tobacco from the Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Co-op. Stores at Danncvirke. He was sentenced by Mr. Justice Blair to-day to two years’ hard labour. Mr. J. 1). Willis said he realised it was difficult to plead on behalf of the prisoner. Through unemployment Brazier had had a great deal of time on his hands, and in such circumstances a. man of his type was more prone to fall into mischief than if he were busy. Counsel said ho had seen the list of the prisoner’s previous convictions, and he would like to point out that none involved dishonesty. There was the further fact that on tho present charges Brazier had been in custody for just over ono month. In passing sentence. His Honour said he thought Brazier had proprely been found guilty by the jury. Bo was probably not the only one involved in the offences, but. at the. same time, he must have known the risk he was taking. George Albert Edwards, who was charged conjointly with Brazier, war found not guilty yesterday afternoon and was discharged.