SUPREME COURT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2194, 6 July 1914, Page 9

SUPREME COURT.

A YOUNG MAN SENTENCED. On Saturday pioiiung a loung mnn named Hiiam'lVtlicrick I)i\ttr uas scnloiicihl b\ His Honour tho Chief Justice (Sir Mount .Stom) on much clnigoa uf theft of jcucllciy. "Aw thefts, which wore lonimitttt! on .luin 15 hll■ l 18 last, were from the Diil.o of Edi"imrgh, thoGri'iid, tin WiikKoi, nnii tlio CVcil Hotels. Mr. l\ J. O'lleg.iu nii;omed for ilio accused. Mr. O'Hegan Tiitl Hint ther" «as icr\ littlo bo could s.iv alout ncmud Ho had just leccutk ini\i'd ui -Vw Zealand. 110 Hfli t«« jens of ago. "As, a mnitoi ol fad," s..id Ml U'Ucgnu, "to-daj i« bis bir'ilulaj." Mr. O'Hcaan won on to Miy Hint accused was n ita'no ol Nnrlli Ainori(.i, and appeared to be a iii..,t of b'ljKrioi education. He bad JL'TG in '.us powssion, and bo gjt i.ito a gambling den, where lie lost all but VI A\ 11h pnetically no monoj ip ins possession tbo following day bo grow if"bj ,n iato, :>nd yielded to tbo temptation. His Honour: Hut tl"io was a Eerie: of offences. Mr. O'Jtegan: Yes; but ♦he*' is tins much to say. Accused bus concoiiled nothing from tlio po'ic, ititli i'o result that most of the. slol'ii property has been recovered. Continuing, Mr ■U'Hegnn said that accused bed iniie frankly admitted that bo had sened a sentence of ft month'in Australia for ft petty theft. Be-yoml this, notli'iie. '\ns known against bur.. His Honour's Remarks. i In sentencing tbo accused, llis Honour said that lis *hjught tlio rropcr thing to do was to givo I'ii'i a or y ' light sentence He \ oiild nlso ho de-. elarod an habitual triiiu.ia] faceinf i that tbero was is yet nothing knonn I officially against him, ho wrs pr"pnrcd | to give him an i ulcterniinat.> sciteno. i If thero was ucthit'g much known against hiin in Australia or America, | llis Honour had iio doubt hut tha* tbo Prison Hoard would tako this into consideration, nnd rclciso accused on nro-' bntion. This was not a case, houovr, in w)iieh a man slolo sonio money to tido . him out difficulties Accused F«?raed to have inadr a praftticu oi l \. If accused had £75 in ri o possess.on, then it seemed thit ho was travelling as r» s'ot.nn], Tpco wis something sinister about <t. Accused would bo sentenced 'o three months' imprisonment on each chorge,»oi'd bo declared an habitual criminal. On *ho reqUCßtof Mr. His Honour directed that tbo piisoncr, on n:eouiu of his dcliciito lionlth, bo sent to e- prison camp at cither Waipi or KrjngA<oa. Evils of Gambling. "It seems an cs*iaordirary t!iing f " said His Honour, in addressing tbo pi-s----oner, "that a mar. of yvir cdiKatwi and means should go tumbling a'Hl (Oi.i- I initting n series ot ermes (ininbling I is frequently a somco of o.inio ul tins country, though n.ai.., of oni peopio do Hot seem to seo tin. evil cf it, It do stroys thrift as well ns it destroys industry. "It is i itlicr a pti " continued His Honour, "that ;ou shorld como boforo mo on Ameuea'.t pront day, tho fourth of July. lam soiry to seo it." Co'ul'idi.ig, His IJoiiou'r Said that ho understood from the accused that his p.irents "ore 'p high position. Ho wo'iid rot mention ainthing, however, as in tV event of lus story being true, it might cast n slur oh tho family. , The jewellery was mstructtcl tc bo returned to the owners, imd tho money for tho same to be repaid to 'ho pawn- ] brokers. It was stated b\ the police that accused bad enough money to \.n? these amounts.