BORSTAL FOR THREE YOUNG MEN

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 154, 25 March 1939, Page 5

BORSTAL FOR THREE YOUNG MEN

Housebreaking Charges By 'l'elegmph —Press Association. CHIiISTCIIURCII. March 24. Fifteen charges of housebreaking were shared among three young men who appeared for sentence before Mr. Justice Northeroft in the Supretnt’ Court this morning. Arrested in Dunedin. I hey broke, out of the exercise yard at the Titnaru lock-up while awaiting the hearing of charges of housebreaking there, and were consequently charged also with escaping from lawful custody. The three men were Frank Dixon. Cat-field Frederick John William Smith, anil Claude Byron Hill. Dixon alone pleaded guilty to six charges of housebreaking. In one other charge of housebreaking lie wits associated with Smith, ami in four charges he was associated with Hill, while all three were associated in two charges of housebreaking, as well as the charge of escaping from custody. Announcing that lie did not intend to discriniinale among lite three, his Honour said that while it was true this was Hill’s first appearance in Court he, now appeared on some ten charges, and he, with others, had yet to be dealt with on four charges of converting ■'Those youths seem to have assumed, licence to prey on the eoimuunity as they think 111 anil Hint attitude, if not cheeked, will lead to their spending most of their lives in .jail,” said bis llmiour. “My duty to then) as well as to Die community is to put them under rest faint.” All three were sent to borstal for two years.