BURGLARS GAOLED
JEWELLERS ROBBED TERM OF THREE YEARS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Having pleaded guilty to a series of breaking, entering and theft charges, involving cash, jewellery and goods valued at over £IOOO, Kenneth Hugh Bennetts, aged 21, was sentenced to three years’ reformative detention by Mr. Justice Fair in the Supreme Court to-day.
Arrainged for sentence with Bennetts were Leo Leonard Colquhoun, aged 25, who was sentenced to 12 months’ reformative detention on one charge of breaking, entering and theft and Allan Farquhar Young, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking', entering and theft, but who was not represented by counsel and was stood down until the next sentence day. The charges related to numerous thefts from dwellings and burglaries in two city jewellers’ shops by Bennetts, who was, in one case, associatco with Colquhoun and, in the other, with Young. Counsel for Bennetts states that over £GOO worth of jewelleery had been sold to a man in Wellington for which Bennetts received £lO only.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 20 October 1939, Page 11
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170BURGLARS GAOLED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 20 October 1939, Page 11
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