CRIME IN AUCKLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1921, Page 4

CRIME IN AUCKLAND.

SENTENCES AT SUPREME COURT. SUPPRESSION OF NAMES. , By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Feb. 12. For the first time in Auckland tin suppression of the names of two accus ed was ordered at the Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Stringer. A man ant a woman were charged with having njade a' false statement in registering one of four of their children. On counsel applying for suppressior of their names, the Judge said then bad been a breach of the law, but the police had no discretionary power*?, sc it had been left to him to look at the surrounding circumstances. It was as venial an offence aa could possibly be committed. He fined the man 40s and costs, but no fine was imposed on thi woman. Twelve months' imprisonment was passed on Thos. Davis, who pleaded guilty to being concerned in the theft of electrical goods from two warehouses, and on Arthur Ernest Cobam, who was found guilty of similar offences, arising out of the same burglaries. “These firms deserve to lose money ’because of the careless way in which they seem to \ manage their business,” said the Judge when dealing with John Andrew Riddel (22), who obtained £237 from local stock firms by false pretences. His Honor added that such business methods offered an incentive to crime. Accused was placed on three years’ probation, and ordered to pay back by instalment half the amount lost by the two firms concerned. Another case, in which a youth had had association with lads in racing stables, as a result of which his moral fibre is said to affected, was that of Leonard C. Carmont, aged 19, who admitted forging and uttering a cheque at Hamilton. His Honor, placing accused on probation and also prohibiting him from racecourses and billiard saloons, said it was another instance of gross carelessness on the part of people dealing with cheques. Accused had simply walked into a storekeeper's premises and cached a cheque on which he had written a customer’s name. How people kept out of the Bankruptcy Court when they conducted their business in that way he could not understand. Wm. Edwards, for breaking and entering a dwelling al Dargaville, and theft, received three months’ imprisonment. Probation was ordered in a number of cases inwiving various offences.