TO FIT THE CRIMES

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 65, 10 March 1933, Page 5

TO FIT THE CRIMES

Prisoners Sentenced IN THE SUPREME COURT ■ 1 i THREE BURGLARY CASES (Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. Prisoners sentenced by His Honour, Mr. Justice Reid included Edwin Edwards, indecent assault on a male, three charges, to two years’ imprisonment concurrently, to be followed by a year’s reformative detention; Robert William Reay. breaking, entering and theft, two years hard labour; James Cunningham Parker > and James Edward White, breaking, entering and theft, 12 months hard labour; and Marsh Kaimoana, breaking entering and theft at Wairoa, twelve months’ reformative detention. His Honour remarked that the latter prisoner, was an edu-' cated Maori, who attributed his lapses to liquor aml he would be well advised to leave it alone. Frederick Howard Davis, for causing a person to receive a letter with intent to extort money, was sentenced to three years’ probation and to pay the costs of prosecution (£l/5/-) and be debarred from attending picture shows for a year. His Honour mentioned the prisoner’s youth and said the probation officer gave him a good character. The bombastic language in the letter satisfied Honour that prisoner l should be treated <as having the mental capacity of a child who had been allowed to attend too many gangster pictures.