CRIME PUNISHED

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10273, 7 May 1919, Page 8

CRIME PUNISHED

SUPREME COURT SENTENCES.

Three prisoners who 'had pleaded guiltv to offences in the lower court cae btfore the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) for sentence in the Supreme Court yesterday. Mr J. • Prendewlle appeared for the Crown. Distressing circumstances were attached to the case of Charles Clifford Jenkins, guilty of breaking and-enter-ing and theft at Bulls. It was shown that Jenkins, who was at one time a prominent jockey, had fallen on evil days, owing principally to an insatiable appetite- for intoxicants. He, had done practically no 'work for a long time, and lacked the will-power necessary to pull himself out of the mire. His Honour commented that the case was of a type all too common in this country. Mr J. J. McGrath, who appeared for the prisoner, applied to havn him committed to Roto Roa Island, in order to get the alcohol out of his system.! .His Honour agreed to the course suggested, and stipulated '-■ that the term should be eighteen months. ; YOUTHS' STUPID ACT. Two youths, named respectively VVilliam Norman Howell and .Ernest George Braz-'er, had pleaded guilty to a charge of obstructing the railway line' at Paraparaumu by placing a gate- across the line. Their counsel, Mr P. W. Jackson, intimated that arrangements had been made whereby either of the youths, or both, could, be found suitable em-. ployment in the country. His Honour remarked that the oifence was. a serious one, as it had endangered the lives of the people travelling on the railway. Probation could not be granted, and he would convict and order the prisoners to come up for sentence when called on, on condition that they tooi separate employment in the country and paid £3 os each towards the cost of the prosecution.