TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1922, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

[llY TELEOKAPn—PEII PH ESS ASSOCIATION]

EX-SOLDIERS AND CRIME

MR. JUSTICE HERDMAN’S COMMENTS.

AUCKLAND, March 22. Tn tlie Supreme Court to-day Charles Henry Glover, on two charges of forgery and breach of probation, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with hard labour. Addressing the prisoner, Mr Justice Herdinan, referring to a plea for leniency ,said: Regarding your war record, that is no excuse for the committal of offences. As a Minister of the Crown T had some experience with soldiers, and T found that most of the men who returned! from the war led reputable lives. T should say that 90 per cent, of them settled down and were now reputable citizens. Tt is no excuse and. no reason why I should abstain from punishing you. Men must obey their probation order. I understand that many who are placed on probation treat such leniency very lightly. Lot this be al warning to all those at present on probation. It ia not to be abused. SUPREME COURT SENTENCES AUCKLAND, March 22. “The offence you committed against your sister is a. most disgusting one,” said Mr Justice Herdman to a Maori Hohepa Tanu Pomare, who bad been found guilty of incest at Whangarei. “If you were a European I would have given you a long sentence, but you are a Maori, and I suppose I must consider your peculiar ideas of morality. T will send you to gaol, for a' short period. You will be imprisoned for six months with hard labour.” The prisoner asked his Honour to give him probation.” ° “No, T will not do that,” said his Honour. Other sentences imposed by Mr Justice Herdman were:—James Francis McMullen, breaking, entering and theft, three months; Norman Stewart Ward breaking, entering, and theft, three years’ probation; Andrew Peter Jensen .forgery, six months’ reformative treatment at the end of his present sentence of two years’ reformative detention; Alfred Hinton, four charges of forgery and uttering,, 18 months.