SERIES OF OFFENCES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1932, Page 13

SERIES OF OFFENCES.

YOUNG MEN SENTENCED. WELLINGTON, Dec. 16. Three young men, between the ages of 22 and 24 years, were sentenced in the Supreme Court yesterday for a series of offences of breaking, entering and theft at Palmerston North. Counsel for the prisoners said they had made a clean breast of the different affaire, and had cleared up several eases which the police would not otherwise have been able to sheet honieto them. They had been for a long period on relief work, and preferred to take what casual work they could get rather than go into camp. The prisoners were Stanley Iteslaw Galliclian, 22, carpenter, against whom there were 13 indictments of a similar nature; Jack Galliclian, 24, clerk, seven charges; and Malcolm Victor Smith, 24, shop assistant, seven charges. Mr Hanna, for tho prisoners, informed the Court that the amount of cash stolon was not as large ns had been represented. Stanley Galliclian lost his parents at an early age. He attended the Technical School, became a carpenter, and tried to got work at Napier. He failed to get regular work, returned to Palmerston North, and went on relief work. In June last there was no further relief work for single men. , Mr Justice Reed suggested that he could have gone to a camp rather than commit crimes. Mr Hanna said Jack Galliclian was a cousin of the previous accused. He came of a respectable family, and up to two years ago was in regular employment. He then went on relief work. Smith was also a victim of the times'. His parents were respectable people. All the prisoners bitterly regretted what they had done, and realised they must face the consequences. He asked His Honour to extend such leniency as was possible. His Honour: They could have gone into camp, where they would have had their tucker and that sort of thing. Mr Hanna: They seemed disinclined to go into camp, preferring to rely upon what casual work they could get. HLs Honour held that there was no excuse. The prisoners had had a good training, and deliberately took those means to obtain . money rather than work. In times like these when such tilings were going on, it was the duty of the Court to pass deterrent sentences to prevent others doing the same. Stanley Galliclian was committed to a Borstal Institution for a period not exceeding two years; Jack Galliclian was sentenced to 12 months’ reformative detention, and Smith to fifteen months’ reformative detention on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. ■