Mt Roskill Affray

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 498, 30 October 1928, Page 1

Mt Roskill Affray

SEAMAN sentenced COULD NOT GET WORK” . rt u u r James Connop, seaman. Inflicted a severe wound on **°. -j of a resident of Mount a marlin-spike a fort"nht' ago, and who pleaded guilty ,u. Police Court to four charges "Tweaking, entering and theft, »* sentenced in the Supreme Court this morning by Mr. Justice Blair. Fof the assault he received a year’s .formative detention, and for the making charges will serve another n years. Asked if he had anything to say, janop, who was not represented by iinsel, pleaded that the assault was intended, but was the outcome of a Jijle of which he remembered tie “1 would never intentionally do ma n bodily harm,” he said. He iired leniency as this was the first e n 0 had been before a Court. He old not get any work and that ompted his crimes. Prisoner said he a given the police every assistance clearing up his crimes. His Honour: That is quite true. : ier e was once a time in English law „ n these offences would have meant •at you would have spent the rest of lUt life In gaol. You have a good •cord as a seaman and I would very uch like to let you off lightly, but if I a 1 should have to treat all first fenders similarly.