BREAKING & ENTERING.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17898, 19 December 1929, Page 11

BREAKING & ENTERING.

EPIDEMIC OF CRIME. MUST BE STERNLY REPRESSED. ELEVEN PRISONERS SENTENCED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Nine of eleven prisoners who appeared before the Chief Justice for sentence pleaded guilty to offences of breaking and entering. His Honour described this phase o) crime as an epidemic which would have to be strongly repressed by thi Court. For breaking, entering and theft at Shannon, Gordon Max King and Algar R. D. Mason were ordered two years in Borstal. Daniel Gilchrist was ordered nine months’ reformative detention. There is a recommendation to the Prisons Board to consider the release of" King and Gilchrist at a comparatively early date if their behaviour is good. Grace Haramaia and John Joseph Ryan, for breaking, entering and theft' at Levin, were ordered nine months’ reformative detention. Hugh Simon and William Johnson, breaking, entering and theft at Waroa, were sentenced to two years in Borstal. Johnson, who also pleaded guilty to opening a postal packet, also has a recommendation to the Prisons Board. Henry Kaiwara, for attempted breaking and entering, with intent to commit a crime (two charges), and breaking, entering and theft (four charges), four years- reformative detention. On three charges of false pretences and one of theft, Arthur Willoughby Brassey was ordered twelve months’ reformative detention.