YOUNG BURGLARS
SERIES OF THEFT’S. [By Telegraph, Per Press Association.] NEW, PLYMOUTH, Jan. 30. Archibald William Parkes. aged If), and Oswald Henry Parker, aged 18, admitted in the Police Court to-day that they were the perpetrators of numerous night and day burglaries from the shops of tobaoconists and chemists in New Plymouth Each was sentenced to six weeks hard labour on the summary charges, and committed for sentence for the indictable offences. The youths worked either singly or together. and generally selected holiday periods or quiet parts of the day to carry on operations. The buildings were mostly entered from the back yards, and the doors and windows were then forced and broken, or the locks were removed. Parker bad l>oon admitted to probation several times previously. Parker also pleaded guilty to the theft of many cases of benzine from farms and other places in the country, and of a whole cheese from a dairy factory. Jn those offences he had as partners, Jack McDowell, who pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, and Thomas John Henry Withers, who was admitted to probation for two years.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1929, Page 6
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188YOUNG BURGLARS Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1929, Page 6
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