TWO YEARS’ REFORMATIVE TREATMENT.
A YOUTH SENTENCED,
Harold Richard Edwin Giles, a youth of 17 years of age, who was committed to the Supreme Court for trial on Thursday last on two charges of theft, was further charged at the Police Court, Palmerston North, on Saturday, before Mr W. 6, K. Kenriek, S.M., with the theft, at Hastings, of a bicycle valued at £l3, the property of John Runciman. Detec live-Sergt. Quirke gave evidence that accused, who is already under reformative treatment, was licensed out from the Weraroa Training Farm to a picture-framer in Wellington. He got tired of the work, and broke away, and went to Hastings, where (lie cycle was stolen, Later he went to Himitangi, whore a number of other (hefts were committed.
His Worship said il was hard to know what to do with a young’ follow of this typo, as apparently ho was too lazy to work. Ho would he sentenced to two years’ reformative treatment, the sonteneo to be cumulalivo to the one he is at present serving, while it -would be left to the prisons hoard to say whether he would 1)0 let out before that lime.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1861, 6 August 1918, Page 3
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194TWO YEARS’ REFORMATIVE TREATMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1861, 6 August 1918, Page 3
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