SUPREME COURT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 488, 22 April 1909, Page 9

SUPREME COURT.

: 'n ?;;;? ;/SENraNCEb;';^^ ■?.':••■ !^b & :s*s .o^.-Ai'Battfh of ./prisoners upon'whom: •• 'h' sentence -, was /.passed ?by ,-Mr : .: ". Cooper.'; ;. v -yesterda/'was;Johjt David -Andersbrij:whb,liad' ;:' r ;tb^ : '.J. h ! Replying,; to);the;";iisual Question; prisoner; v^stated; that; he knew'notlting 'about the "affair; ;:; : A-7-that;hb was;;inriocßiiti-;#;;.;vS7; ; ': ,: : Y: ;." ; . ■';■- i'J.v-Bis* Honour :.:w You /cannot- now-contradict -guilty. + ■ '■ :'^fV;>' : :; : .r%' _ask 'to be:'a'llowe'd'outybn pro■■■•'■:'vbation'^Thw'is'?iny:;:first^b£Eehce;^'Tam- ribt ; ■'■" •■!-a™7.v™ ifind;>niyself :in:;this : position '::;'/ ' ; ;His;;Honoiir;said^that';ho;believed : prisoner ■\ w>^iinder li the;irifluence/of*>liguor .':at-- -'the'-taW ;ft;"to; ; lmcw::what : :became;bf !; ■;«- ; ;fiPnson6r;::-i;:haTe ; ;not('ari: earthly idea/ '.}■'■.: ■ ' '.■!. J fl 13 ' ; Hpnbu*;;said -thatvih ;face>b'f '- tho'iprd- :•,•■:-; bation .■trepbf'tjV'iiii'd;';'<if i'thbJcircuni- ■. : : ; : :would;:;however ; ;;pass;\only:;a : lieht'senteuce '• '~—sixV.moriths : hard ; 'laD^ ■;x; : WDNTy FOREMAN; F; ; ,Albert ;Hanseh,Ywho :;had : pleaded :..•:,guilty ;tb five.'.charges ■ of;.false- pretences /and > -v-.one. of--forgery- at/Eltbim', vwas .then : sat; foN ; -;"Vward;v'':u^7;vs;;::; i.^Sypa/.pf-Eltham;, stated, '■^^,%emah.,te'the.Eltham;.Cbunty;:C6'uhcii;'.':- : He.. -.-•::assistedr'to >uppbrt:'.;his' mbth«y'butih";id : got' :' . thatvihis 1 Honour .:.-/.wiuldvnpt^ ;,..that:prisoner;'was cbhvicted of-robbery eleven : ;:;.yearsibefpre;--:-ilis\frieiKls wshed':that: hb .:..;should :be.given an .opportunity ;to: go tb Weist 1 "v;-Vj-.carcfully.iconcoctcd schemb.for. the'purposo'of.. ;:;•: defrauding ; his;empl6yers. , ' i; :'VVlieri-arrested he iri ; his' -; -that lie intrncled.tb -.' /.continue -the. bffence. : :Hb' would ; 'flrd"r him be -imprisoned : ; fbr': twbV ycare: with •••■hard-' :'YJ'lapotar7..:^-;V;y.;V : ?^ v:-;7:';Edgar;Hbupei;;Avhb:liad?pleyed. guilty .to'i'a.' :'. - bhargo>/bf; arson ■;atv/PalmerstbriV:Nbrth, \was : ;■•:'• ;/: then' placed'.in': tho dock./.-':« -i V \-? ;■.;?• ■■'■J.- '■'Xi ::>V±:Hi3^nour;said ; th^typrobablydrmk'might' .'fr'V'Ye. the commis-; .-j sion of the.offoncb/:.;Thb'offence ofarson wa3, ;■;.■■ however', one:; of: the- highest; known .to. : thr- : . ,:':.:- law." ••.-• -/Prisoner,■'; had '"set '. fire ;'to :tli6. Hoynl : - .North' At^nightV 1 and' the ■~ inferencewas .'; that / a > : seebhd: ifirepwhich':' r.e-v :'- : .^r^-. M ?*'^*yi'-was'pa'iwed-ibv' :; prisbn'er's' ; het''. /:- :^\? n , a . c *:"/hieh"resulted in : the-destruction' of ;..:..-,.yaluabls,'.property/-vaf; the nrslifi'rb'had hot: '•:"'"..bf hfp. -^t>was .imp'essibie;to'pass bright sen-■ ;;rtencb.;|mb.wpul«l.order'nrisoner'to be incar;;7cbrated:fpr.fiye •■..";,;Another ■.•■prisoner.upon .'whoin sentence was :■;;;■ imposed was- Richard; Lynch,' -whp had ad-; emitted/a.chargPvb);;.;having- broken' and en- ': .tered.Sa .dwelling-house at: AVelliiigton and ■-;;,cbriimitting. 'thcf.t'vfrbm'-:it.*'.7'-:. '-'.'v.'- ■■'■'■ '.'"■ '..-. -•'• .'■;.;.' '. ; >'-??"! :trust ; :you;-:will : .;be' I 'made'-' ; .ajniistake this,-timb/'.'reiiiarkefi/prisoher; ■■' ;: : y?;His;' Honour," in said -itliat,-'-. jud«ing v.".from^his; 'record,;■■>,«!J-;Was;''nbt'; the .first -time ;- ■ 'prisoner',.'had'made avmistakb.-.-Prisoner":had '■•". bben,convicted' of ..theft' 1 before,:bbth at Hast-: .-Wellington; ..'He was an unde-' ,;; sirablb.charactci', who hadebmo from 'another ■',:.■■': cbloiiy.yThbvpublic required protection' from, :; porsonsbf Jiis class;-' He.wbuld;bc ordered to ■ .be imprisoned "for.ihr«« years .with hard lab-