THREE YEARS’ JAIL
Post Office Burglary (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 14. Three years’ reformative detention-was the sentence imposed by Mr. Justice Fair on Trevor Norman Foote, labourer, aged 34, for breaking and entering the Royal Oak Post Office and having in his possession explosives with intent to commit a crime. , Mr. Meredith, Crown prosecutor, said that the police patrol observed that the door of the post office had been jemraied. They kept watch and caught Foote coming ‘out with letters and cheques in bis pocket. Gelignite with a fuse attached was found in the keyhole of the safe. The judge said that three years must be the minimum sentence for an oflenee of this kind, but as (he prisoner had assisted (he police to clear up the results of the crime, and bad not resisted arrest, the penally would be. detention, which would enable the Prisons Board to consider remissions.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 17, 15 October 1943, Page 6
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151THREE YEARS’ JAIL Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 17, 15 October 1943, Page 6
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