ROBBERY UNDER ARMS
TWO YOUTHS SENTENCED [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 2G. Commenting that the crime of robbery under arms had been rare in New Zealand, compared with Australia and the United States, and' that the court did not want it to start in this country, Mr Justice Koed sentenced John McDonald (21) to two years’ reformative detention, and Horace Timothy O’Connor (18) to two years’ detention in the Borstal. He remarked that the prisoners had been in New Zealand! only a short time, and were not making a very good start. A flogging might have been advisable, but with prisoners of their ago the court always, if possible, leaned to lenienev.
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Evening Star, Issue 23381, 26 September 1939, Page 9
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113ROBBERY UNDER ARMS Evening Star, Issue 23381, 26 September 1939, Page 9
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