SUPREME COURT
SUBSTANTIAL SENTENCE. FOR ROBBERY AND ASSAULT (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) DUNEDIN, June 18. """ Xt the Siipeihc Court Thomas William Wilson and Rupert Saunders were sentenced this morning by Justice Kenedy. The former was sentenced oncharges of breaking, entering ami theft front Hudson Flour Coy. £SOO sterling, R. S. Black £450, Dawson and Co., jewellery £3030, W. J. Paterson, jewellery £B4l, -assaulting Walter Rossiter and doing grevious bodily harm to .Jane Rossiter, five years in all with one year reformative detention thereaiter.
Sounders received a sentence of 3 years reformati.e for assaulting Rossiter with intent to rojgj the Judge remarking that following drunken bouts he fell in with Wilson's suggestions and his crime was not attended with orutafitv.
The Judge after reviewing Wilson’s Australian 'convictions, said lie regarded him as a callous, brutal, dangerous criminal. Within .six mnotlis he had stolen goods valued at £4791 and £3BOO of jewellery was still mire covered, the proceeds of which most likely he hoped to enjoy when released. The cruel brutal assault on the old man and. his wife merited exemplory punishment. ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1931, Page 5
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