Ten Years.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1914, Page 5

Ten Years.

A YOUNS MA Ml SENTENCED, 188 HOUSES BROKEN INTO. A young man, concerned in the ISS forceful entries into houses and various kinds of buildings during the last ten or twelve months, was sentenced at the Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions on January 23 (reports the Sydney Daily Telegraph). Frank Stanley W aliis-Taylor, the accused, had pleaded guilty to fifteen charges of breaking and entering, and it was shown on official evidence that the total of Ids peculations was £1594. Detective Have, who was at the arrest, stated that a lot of the stolen property was recovered by the assistance oi the prisoner. The officer said that of the ISB “breakings,” 37 had not been accompanied by steal-

Thc prisoner was without a “record.”

Judge Docker, said that, in a general statement, the prisoner had requested him to deal with him leniently. He had attempted to make it appear that he was truly repentant, but his Honor had heard similar statements before.

In the plea put before the Bench, prisoner said that the man who stole £SOOO or £SOO was not so much to blame as the man who stole sd, because if the opportunity had presented itself the thief of od would most gladly have been the thief of £SOOO. Therefore, more leniency should be shown in connection with the .stealing of the. greater sum than by the smaller.

His Honor said it would be absurd to impose a light sentence. Prisoner had pleaded guilty to fifteen charges of breaking and entering, the penalty for which was severe. It was to be recognised that householders had to be protected, and his Honor hoped that the punishment that he was about to inflict would not alone have a salutary effect upon the prisoner, but would have a deterrent effect upon others like-minded. The sentence was ten years’ penal servitude on each charge, the tenthto he concurrent.

His Honor ordered that the goods traced to the pawnhroking establishments should he restored to the owners, it having been explained that a fairly reasonable notice of the robberies had been given.