PRISONERS FOR SENTENCE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 16, 13 October 1917, Page 8

PRISONERS FOR SENTENCE

BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE.

: Three prisoners came before the Chief Justice (Sir Kobeit Stout) for sentence yesterday morning. ■ Mr. P. S. K. Macassey appeared for tho Crown. • . George AVinterburn, a half-caste Maori of eighteen, wus remanded till to-day for sentence on two charges of forging and' uttering at Ot.iki. Aa hotel porter, James Glenn, also eighteen years of age, had pleaded guilty lo a charge of fraudulently retaining a postal packet at Wellington. His Honour remarked that there were four former charges of theft against Ihe prisoner, so that he was liable to bo declared an habitual criminal. Glenn would be sentenced to two years' reformative treatment at Invcrcargill Gaol. •Edward Howe Shore, aged twenty-one, had been convicted of false pretences at Faliuerslon North. He was a returned soldier, and the case against him had been that he sold articles which had been mortgaged. Sir. P. AV. Jackson, who appeared for the prisoner, stated that tho latter was the lessee of some lands from the Commissioner of Lands. His Honour observed that it was a case of putting on the land a man whs. had no experience ot farinin", no common sense, and no sense ot the value of money. The prisoner had acted in a very foolish manner. Mr. Jackson explained that there was a mortgage of £10. The prisoner had sold part of the security and with tie money so obtained, and other money, he had purchased two sows and a litter ot pigs. He had thought that in doing so he had replaced one security by another. Counsel asked that Ihe prisoner might have an opportunity of making up the deficiency. He had gone to the Iront with the Main Body. < His Honour said that he could not take that as an excuse. He would, however, adjourn the case for eighteen months.