SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1932, Page 6

SUPREME COURT

BOMB CARRIER. SENTENCE OF .12 MONTHS’. i (Per Press Association — Copyright.) : , ~ AUCKIaAND • August 12. W George Sargieitf, found guilty of being in possession of a bomb and gelignite, with intent to commit a crime was sentenced to-diay by 1 Justice 'Smith to twelve:months’ hard labour. His 'Honour isaid it had not been proved: that the prisoner was an active member of .any organisation, whose avowed, dbjeict was ..the destruction of society, but,, it was impossible fio re-r gard' 1 his offence® lightly. In view of his'i good record, only half tlie full penalty would be imposed.

j GUILTY OF FRAUD. SENTENCE OF FOUR YEARS’. . ;, AUCKLAND, August 12. ... Clifford Spence Dublin, found guilty of..conspiring to and of false . pietenoes carne up for sentence today. :i a written statement hie made ■ the unusual request to Justice Smith to iinpose a .'shqrt term of imprison-: ment and corporal puni-hment, instead of a long term. . . ; OThe, ■ Judge : said , tba- alccused had ciinspiifed to defraud an old man of *.£1200. • Conspiracy was impudent and, carefully piaarnqd; Accused’s, request could notf.be granted, ( a)3 the law did. not allow' it. The sentence would he. four yeai’s’ hard'labour. • - ..

•MAGISTRATE ORDERS FLOGGING. ■ IN ADDITION TO SENTENCE:. AUOKTiAND, August 12. •; “Afuch as’T liiriiike it > 1 must decide that physicial; violence,. such as was used in this; case, must be-niot by. physical pnnislmient as: well as by • imprisonment,”: said Mr Justice ’Smith to-day wheen sentencing Fraiiois John Peckham/a Fijian ship’s fireman, and ■ AYilliam Keogh, a labourer, who ivere found guilty of holding up a cashier in the street' oh .May 27th. and stealing a pay roll of over £l4O. »j‘ Hts Hdnour said that the crime was idefinitely one of; thfe gaiigster type: The, whole affair, was carefully -and oiie of .the; riiolgt serious -aspects . was. that- a number of people stood around without offering to help. It •: was,, intolerable, that.,the streets in. broad , daylight "should' be unsafe . for.; ...persons. who carried money. Strongly . deterrent sentences muist be impos'd ,-to stop this kind:of, lawlessness. ■' •; Peckham; wriri.. sentenced to three .years’ hard iribbtir, and a flogging of twelve’ strokes, land Keog.h to two years’ hard,- with a. similar-'flogging. •