BURGLARS REWARDED.
Fifteen Years apiece. Wellington, August 17. Before Mr Justice Cooper, three men named John Byron Hamilton, George Ferris, and William Robert Sinclair, convicted of burglarentering the premises of Faery and Co. and by means of dynamite breaking open the safe, were set forward for sentence. Ferris and Sinclair had also pleaded guilty to two other charges of burglary, and Hamilton had been found guilty of receiving articles which he knew to have been stolen. His Honour, in passing sentence, said there was no doubt in his mind the prisoners were very dangerous men, and the community would be much safer for their conviction. For the offence of breaking and entering Faery and Co.’s premises and committing robbery the accused would be sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. Ferris and Sinclair would be sentenced to five years’ on each of the charges to which they had pleaded guilty. Hamilton would also receive sentences on other charges. In effect the punishment is fifteen years to each prisoner.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 20 August 1907, Page 3
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166BURGLARS REWARDED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 20 August 1907, Page 3
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