WINDSOR BROTHERS SENTENCED

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3637, 12 May 1927, Page 2

WINDSOR BROTHERS SENTENCED

A CRIMINAL TRIO,

JUDGE’S CONAIENTS. j, / Albert George Windsor, Frederick Joseph Windsor, and Laurence Egmont Windsor, the three brothers who created a sensation on the night of January 31st. last by breaking and entering the Levin and Pahiatua railway stations and stealing money from the safes in the buildings which they blew open with explosives, pleaded guilty to the offences at the Palmerston Supreme Court on Tuesday. The value of .the money stolen from the Department was £143 10s Id. The brothers also pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the office of the Otaki Dairy Company on the same night and stealing stamps to the value of £l. Yesterday morning they appeared before His Honour, Air. Justice Alpers, for sentence, each brother receiving five years imprisonment with hard labour on each of the three charges, sentences to be concurrent, but to commence at the expiry of the five years each was at present serving for previous crime. Addressing the prisoners, his Honour said: “You have begun your career 1 of crime when you were mere boys, and followed it very consistently ever since. , Other members of your family, are also criminals. Apparently you constitute a distinctly criminal family, which fact is fortunately rare in the history of New Zealand. Already you are serving a term of imprisonment for breaking and entering. As to Joseph Frederick and Laurence Egmont, I desire to waste no words on you. You will be sentenced to 5 years’ hard labour on each of the three charges, sentence to be concurrent and to qommence at the .expiry of the five years you are now serving. I pass the same sentence upon Albert George with this observation. You are not only like your two brothers, a hardened criminal, but, a mean and despicable one as well. Your brothers when'arrested, lied manfully, you cringed, making a statement concerning your, two brothers in crime and blood. You sought to gain favour by thatmeans. No doubt when you three have served your,sentences you will resume the lives you have lived hithei’to. Albert George, I advise you for your own comfort in future to remember the old adage of honour among thieves.”