SUPREME COURT.
WELLINGTON SESSIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. At the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice remarked that there was a great need that our law regarding prisoners should bo altered. He hoped the time would soon come when prisoners will be paid for the work they do in gaol, and the money go to their wives and families, who often were the real sufferers.
Robert Irwin McLean, who pleaded guilty to three charges of uttering, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment, to run concurrently with the sentence prisoner is now serving. He was declared a habitual criminal.
.James O'Connell, found guilty of theft from the person, was admitted to two years' probation, on condition that for the two years he lives in a no-license district, takes no liquor, und uses no tobacco.
Nicholas Curran, for committing an indecent act, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. George Harris, for forging and uttering, was sentenced to three years' reformative detention.
Thomas Aquinsee Murphy, for carnally knowing a Maori girl under lfi, waß sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment. In the case of Herbert William Gough, found guilty of common assault on a young girl, the Chief Justice said lie would not send prisoner to gaol, on account of his health. Prisoner would be let go, provided he remained in the country for two years, during which time he must not visit any town, smoke cigarettes or take any intoxicating liquors. Frederick Rodger, who pleaded guilty to the theft of lodge funds, was sentenced to two years' reformative treatment.
A lad named Richard Thomas Davis, who pleaded guilty of breaking, entering and theft, was allowed his liberty, conditional on his returning to the Weraroa State farm.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1917, Page 4
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284SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1917, Page 4
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