CRIME AND ITS PENALTY.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17783, 7 August 1929, Page 8

CRIME AND ITS PENALTY.

SUPREME COURT SITTINGS. t * *is t K 1 SENTENCES IN AUCKLAND. 1 (By. Telegraph.—Press Association ) !», AUCKLAND, Wednesday. At the Supreme Court his Honour sentenced Austin Walker, aged 22, a '4 taxi driver, to two years’ hard labour for indecent assault and indecent exposure on the complaint of two young Avondale girls. ;; Samuel Fabian Wills, an ex-clerk, employed in the Bank of New South £* Wales, at Auckland, who had forged 4* two documents and obtained £470, was sentenced to Borstal detention for T 3 a period not exceeding three years. Alfred Richard Dickman received ft seven years’ hard labour for Incest. Albert Ernest Austin (a recent ft* stowaway) was sent for two years to m Borstal for darnal knowledge. Harry Davis was sentenced to two years’ probation for car/ial knowledge. His Honour Mr Justice Herdman v remarked that in Austin’s case the girl g had never been interfered with prejji viously, but in the Davis case the girl seemed utterly abandoned, and a ftj menace to the community, despite L which Davis, when he found things K had gone wrong, had offered to marry si; the girl. f’ Norman McMillan was sentenced to j three years’ hard labour for an indecent asault on his daughter.

FORGED £4700. EX-BANK CLERK’S OFFENCE. JUDGE’S STRONG COMMENTS. (Special to Times.) AUCKLAND, Wednesday. In passing sentence of three years' Borstal treatment on Samuel Fabian 'Wills, the ex-clerk of the Bank of New South Wales, at Auckland, his Honour, Mr Justice Herdman, addressing the prisoner, said: “If I were to extend to you probation I feel I would he failing in my duty. You admit having forged documents for £4700, and with the advantages you have had in a good education, a good home, and a position of trust, there is no excuse. By your foolish action you have ruined your career. An example must be made and a warning given to young men placed in positions of trust. OFFENCE AT NGARUAWAHIA. EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES ADMITTED TO PROBATION. (Special to Times.) AUCKLAND, Wednesday. In extending probation to Harry Davis (Ngaruavvahia) to-day, his Honour Mr Justice Herdman said 1 : “In your case you happened to have relations with a girl who seems to me to be utterly abandoned and a menace to the young men in the community, because at the present sittings of the Court not only you but another man was ■charged with the .offence of carnal knowledge against her. On a previous occasion, too, this girl was immorally associated with still a third man. You are young,” his Honour added, “and have an excellent police report. Another tiling in your favour is that as soon as you discovered that matters had gone wrong you offered to do anything in your power to help the girl and marry her.. As the circumstances throw a favourable light on your case you will be admitted to probation for a period of two years, subject to paying costs of the prosecution (£lB 1 Is) within 12 months.” Counsel said prisoner was 23 years of age, and the girl had told him she was 17. When he found he had blundered into his offence he acted the part of an honourable man. Davis had personally asked him to refrain from casting any reflection on the girl, even now.