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Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1923, Page 3

Sydney Alfred Bemiett and Francis Alexander Millar, two youthful looking prisoners, who bad plead, d guilty to theft at the Wellington criminal sessions. appeared for sentence before Mr .111-tie.. If o'a! on Saturday. Their olFctlthad been “joy-riding," as they obtained a Ford ear belonging to tbe Wellington Cu V Come, il. wliieli they ultimately abandoned at Auckland. They were both ordered to be detained tor two year-' re'.ormativo detention, line oi the pri-oners -aid in reply to the n-u:d ..uostioii that- 11 1 ev had been advised to pi,sad guilty in tie- lover i inert lev then coTinsel. wito liatl siiic'e :tbaiicl-wnet! tne ease. The ear had been brought back, lie -aid. m a good condition, and had been little the worse for Us trip to the Queen (itv. His Honour alluded to the theft as "a most deliberate one." The prisoners lmd taken tne ear a- !m a- Auckland, be said, and then left H_’.n a railway good- shed. 1 here were tat to,, mau'v thefts of this nature, and it had to bo .stopped. As they bad been convicted before, be would impose a sentence of two years' reformative detention. The spokesman for the duo left the dock grinning foolishly.