AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2210, 24 July 1914, Page 5

AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT

PRISONERS SENTENCED. ilix Telozranh.—Pross Aiiooiatlon.l Auckland, July 23. At the Supreme Court to-day a young man whose name was abbreviated on tho official list as "H. M." Moor, alias Graham, alias Williamson, convicted of charges of false pretences and breaking and entering and theft at Te Awamutu, pleaded for leniency.

"I give this sentence in the'hope that with your youth still before you you will reclaim yourself,'-' said, the Judge, in passing a sentence of nine months' hard labour, to be followed by three years' reformative treatment. .

A middle aged man, described as George Allen, alias Nella, was convicted of a charge of false pretences at Now Plymouth. Pointing out that between 1899 and 1909 the prisoner >.had been convicted of forty-one different offences, the last of which earned him three years' hard labour, the Judge passed a sentence -of nine months' hard labour, and again declared Alien to be an habitual criminal. t "I was declared an habitual criminal at 18 years of age," declared Sydney Herbert Gordon Doyle, who was convicted of breaking and entering and theft at New_ Plymouth, and who, according to his statement, is now only 22 vears of age. • The Judge decided to hand back the man to the Prisons Board, and again declared him an habitual criminal.

■ Norman Johnston', aged 22, entered the doclc on five convictions of burglary at Auckland. Pointing out that the present convictions were all of entering dwellinghouses by night, Tlis Honour sentenced the prisoner to two yours' concurrent .imprisonment on each indict-ment,-iind declared him to be an habitual criminal.

Duncan Alexander Calderwood, aged 21, convicted of breaking and entering at Morrinsvillo, handed a statement to the Judge, in which -lie asked to. be "laced in chargq,of a brother in Australia.. He whs sentenced to'.three years' reformative treatment, so that the Prisons Board could deal with aiiy bonafide application.