HERO OF RIOT

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1933, Page 8

HERO OF RIOT

FURTHER TERM IN PRISON

ARMED WITH A DAGGER. A ticket-of-leave convict- from Dartmoor, whose bravery in the mutiny there in January, 1932, helped to save the life of Colonel Turner, a- Prison Commissioner, was at Glamorgan Quarter Sessions at Cardiff recently sent back to prison for 12 months. The man, Daniel Thomas Ala in waring, aged 33, • carpenter, of Pontardawe, pleaded guilty’to two charges of breaking and entering. It was stated that when he was arrested by two police officers bn a- mountain-top he was armed with a- dagger and that these officers showed great bravery in capturing him.

A police inspector stated that in 1923 Mainwaring was sentenced to 12 years’ penal servitude for’, attempted murder, robbery when armed, and resisting appiiohonsion. (Sixty-three clays of liis sentence was remitted for his conduct during the mutiny.

Mr Owen George, defending counsel, c,:iid that on the occasion of the mutiny Mainwaring, with two other men, stood between Colonel Turner and a threatening mob, and by their courageous action enabled him to escape into his office. Mainwaring received punishment at the hands of his fellow convicts which, hut for his intervention, would have been meted out to the colonel.

In, sentencing, Mainwaring Sir Rhys Williams, K.C., the Recorder, stated that he had taken into consideration the fact that he would have to servo three y airs of his unexpired -penal servitude, when he went back to prison. Armed men, he added, could not expect leniency from, the courts.