DRIVER SENT TO GAOL

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22508, 16 September 1938, Page 18

DRIVER SENT TO GAOL

FAILED TO STOP AFTER

ACCIDENT

PRISONERS SENTENCED AT

WELLINGTON

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)

WELLINGTON, September 15. “It is possibly unfortunate for you that there are a number of cases in, which irresponsible young men drive 100 fast at night, and after they have had an accident go on without stopping to see what harm they have done. The law requires that it should be stopped, where possible, by punishing the offenders,” said Mr Justice .Reed in the Supreme Court when sentencing Maurice Ernest Redmond, aged 24, a salesman, to six months’ imprisonmerit with hard labour, for failing to stop after an accident. Prisoners licence was cancelled and he was prohibited from obtaining another for 12 months. ' . , Redmond was the driver of a car which went on the wrong side of the road between Tawa Flat and Ponrua and forced an oncoming car into a fence. , . Counsel said Redmond went on at the suggestion of a passenger, who was in peril - because of false statements he had made to the police. Other Sentences Malcolm Ross Kells, aged 27, was sentenced to 18 month's imprisonment with hard labour for breaking, entering, and theft at Hastings. His Honour said Kells had qualified to be declared a habitual criminal, and if the offence had been more serious - that course would have been taken. George William Arthur Henderson, aged 20. a farm labourer, was sentenced to three years’ detention in a Borstal institution for attempted rape at Pahiatua,

AUCKLAND SENTENCES

GOAL FOR BREAKING AND

ENTERING

(press association telegram.)

AUCKLAND. September 15. Three Te Awamutu men, having admitted breaking and entering a shop with intent to commit a crime. William Arthur Murton, aged 33, Edwin Charles Murton. aged 25. and John Tipene, aged 33, were each sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour in the Supreme Court by Mr Justice Quilliam. „ His Honour said that the. offence was a grave one. Drink was doubtless the cause, but the prisoners had travelled 17 miles to break into the shop. They had previous records.

Concealment of Birth

"This is a very sad case, to which I - have given considerable thought,” said his Honour when Peggy Marion Allardice came up for sentence for concealment of the. birth of a child. _ Counsel said she was a country girl, who had fallen into the usual pitfall. His Honour admitted the prisoner to probation for two years, the first year to be spent at the Salvation Army home for girls. Sentence Suspended

William James Newman, aged 47, for breaking, entering, and theft at Te Kuiti, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within two years. , „„ , ~ ~ Douglas Wright, aged 27, for theft at Hamilton, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment with hard labour. “A person of lazy and dissolute habits, and with a bad record,’ said his Honour in passing sentence.