PENALTY OF CRIME.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1922, Page 5

PENALTY OF CRIME.

WELLINGTON SENTENCES. By Telerraph.—Pres# Assneat ton Wellington. July 31. In the Supreme Court, Ralph Emery Small, an ex-Civil Servant, for the theft of Government moneys totalling £34, was admitted to probation for two years. Andrew Ernest Neilson, forgery and attempted uttering, was sentenced to reformative detention not exceeding three years. In the caee of Joseph Peters, a Syrian boy, charged with breaking, entering and theft at Eketahuna while on probation for a previous offence, the Judge said the boy had been badly treated on the farm where he was working—he had been worked like a slave and was poorly fed. He was admitted to j two years’ probation. William Parker, who deliberately smashed the plate-glass window of Stewart, Dawson’s shop, and is now serving a month for making a seditious utterance, was ordered three years' reformative detention. David Davies, who was eaugbt red-handed committing burglary in Chief Detective Kemp’s residence, admitted this and 13 other charges of burgiarv He was sentenced to refit—ti re detention for five years. David Brouter, a Maori lad. for breaking and entering at Palmerston North, was sentenced to two years’ reformative detente.