TWO YEARS’ DETENTION ON THEFT CHARGES

Wanganui Chronicle, 22 December 1949, Page 6

TWO YEARS’ DETENTION ON THEFT CHARGES

WELLINGTON, Yesterday. “UnI fortunately this is not the first time 'you have been before the court; on 'previous occasions you have appeared Ito face charges on a series of offences, ’the last time in circumstances similar jto these. Probation is out of / » ’ question, for you have shown yourseb ! regardless of your employer’s pro[perty and interests," said the Chief I Justice, Sir Humphrey O'Leary, in | sentencing a prisoner in the Supreme ; Court today. i He was Norman Pringle Davidson I Whyte, aged 45, a salesman, who had ■pleaded guilty to 17 charges of theft, j involving £365 8s 2d. I His Honour imposed a sentence of i two years’ reformative detention, and j the prison authorities were directed to , take whatever steps they were able to : alleviate his physical suffering. 1 Harry Alexander Passmore, aged 20, 1 a locomotive fireman, who had pleaded guilty to seven charges of housebreaking and two of breaking and ' entering with intent to commit a crime at Gisborne, was admitted to probation for three years. j His Honour directed that Passmore should take out prohibition orders for each year of his probation, should not live within 50 miles of Gisborne, and must live in Napier if work was available there. “You are very fortunate that the probation officer in Gisborne recommended probation for you," said His Honour. “I would have found difficulty in reaching the same decision myself."