BREAD & WATER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1938, Page 8

BREAD & WATER

UNRULY PRISONER SENTENCED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 2. A sentence of four days’ close confinement, accused to be fed on bread and water, was imposed on an inmate of the Auckland prison, James Toko, aged 34, a Maori, by Mi - C. R. OrrWalker, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court. Accused, who was charged with using personal violence against the de-puty-principal warder, Mr McLeod pleaded guilty. Superintendent Leggett said that accused, who had cut his finger while working in the prison quarry, paraded with others on the sick list, but apparently did not want to go before the medical officer. Ho was told by Mr McLeod he would hove to see the doctor, and. taking ; bo officer unawares, struck him ir fuco with his fist. “Actions of ihi." kind are particularly serious in respect to the discipline of a prison,” said Mr Leggett. “Accused is a man given to violence. He is serving a sentence of two years’ imprisonment and has been declared an habitual criminal.”

The magistrate said he did not want to make the period of close confinement too long, but accused had to be shown that he could not disobey orders. and that he had to learn to keep his temper.