FIVE YEARS IN GAOL
CARRIED A REVOLVER. WELLINGTON, October 30. Edward. Donovan, aged thirty-four, an electrician, was sentenced by Mr Justice Herdman to five years’ hard labour for breaking and entering and being armed with a revolver with intent to enter a store. He was one, of the four men concerned in a burglary at Wiri when revolver shots were fired.
The prisoner, in a statement from the dock, appealed for a retrial. This the Judge refused, saving, the verdict was quite sound, The accused .was a dangerous criminal. His most serious crime was an attempt to shoot a policeman in Wanganui.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1931, Page 3
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102FIVE YEARS IN GAOL Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1931, Page 3
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