LENIENCY HAD NO EFFECT
& Lesson needed MAN SENT TO GAOL FOR THIRD BREACH $F PROBAflON. FAILURE TO REPORT. Described by the magistrate (Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M.) as a man upon whom leniency had gvldently no eifect and who needed a sharp lesson, Edward Arthur George James, a labourer, on Monday was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour on a charge of breaking the terms of his probationary license. Mr. R. Potter appe'ared for James and eritered a plea of guilty on his behalf. Senior-Sergt. Carroll said that the accused had last reported to the poliee at Mercer, but trace of him had been lost for some months. He had finally been discovered and arrested in Rotorua, james had twice before been charged under similar breaches of probation and had a conviction for theft. In sentencing James to three months imprisonment with hard labour, the magistrate said that the leniency with which he had already been treated had apparently not induced him to reform. What he needed was a sharp lesson.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 November 1931, Page 4
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