YOUNG CRIMINALS.
SENTENCES AT WELLINGTON. NO PROBATION FOR THIEVES, By Telegraph—-Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Prisoners brought before Mr. Justice Salmond for sentence to-day were all young men and the Judge said he was opposed to granting probation for persoiib guilty of theft and breaking and entering. “I do not consider it in the interests of public protection,” he said. When Llewellyn Price (false pretences) came before the Court his Honor said prisoner had led a life of crime for seventeen The prisoner was now 35 and theL only honest period in has life was wheh he was away at the front. He was sentenced to two years’ hard labor, followed by two years’ reformative treatment. John Leslie Batson, for theft from a dwelling, received eighteen months. The offence was committed while the prisoner was on probation. Frederick Robinson, for his first offence of theft, was sentenced to nine months. George Frederick Murphy, for theft from a dwelling, received two years’ hard labor.
For forgery and uttering, Thomas Silk, alias Higgins, was sentenced to two years. John McCarthy, alias Mathieson, for breaking and entering two years ago, was sent to gaol for eighteen months
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 April 1921, Page 5
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194YOUNG CRIMINALS. Taranaki Daily News, 5 April 1921, Page 5
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