SENTENCED FOR CRIME

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 9

SENTENCED FOR CRIME

TARANAKI BURGLARS

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. The young, men concerned in the recent epidemic of burglaries in Taranaki were sentenced by Mr. Justice MacGregor this morning as follows: Baymond Jack Vernoii Elliott, breaking, entering, and theft and allied charges, three years' detention in a Borstal Institute; Leonard Edward Smith, on similar charges, five years' hard labour and declared an habitual criminalWin. P. L. Knight, theft of postal packets, attempted breaking and entering, two years' detention in a Borstal Institute; Sydney William Stroud, breaking, entering, and theft, theft of postal packets, and receiving, five years' hard labour and declared an habitual criminal; James Earl Smith, breaking and entering and theft, breaking and entering with intent to commit crime, two years' detention in a Borstal Institute; George Keenan, entering and theft, breaking and entering with intent to commit crime, two years' detention in a Borstal Institute; Patrick Francis Keenan, breaking, entering, and theft, twelve months' reformative detention; Arthur Eudings, breaking, entering, and theft, and Molville Sullivan, breaking, entering, and theft, to come up for sentence if called on within three years and pay £6 each towards the cost of prosecution; Sidney John Oakley, breaking, entering, and theft, two years' reformative detention; John James, breaking, entering, and theft, two years' detention in a Borstal Institute.

Laurence James Sales, for indecent assault on males, was sentenced to five years' hard labour.