GUILTY OF ARSON
PRISONERS SENTENCED
Athol Jordan Buckley, who :l had pleaded guilty to a charge of arson and also to a charge of breaking and entering a- dwelling house by night, and theft, was brought up. for sentence in the Supreme Court yesterday. .Mr. Justice Blair was on the Bench.
On behalf of the prisoner, Mr. Hardie Boys said that only a fool would have done what the prisoner did. He had succumbed to temptation, but nqt for his own chief benefit. The prisoner had already been in custody for two months.
■ His said that the crime of setting fire to a house was a serious one.
; On the charge of arson a sentence.of. three years' imprisonment with hard labour was imposed; ana, on the other two charges, two years' reformative detention was ordered.
John Patrick Burke, who had been found guilty of leceiving stolen property, knowing that it had been dishonestly obtained, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1933, Page 13
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163GUILTY OF ARSON Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1933, Page 13
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