BREAKING AND ENTERING
YOUNG MEN SENTENCED (By Telegraph—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. By adopting the methods of purloining goods when shop assistants had their backs turned, Jack Hands, aged 19, of Fitzherbert Avenue, Palmerston North, committed eleven thefts. He was caught at Ashburton and on appearing before Mr Mosley, S.M., this morning he was put on probation for three years. Some of the stolen articles Were received by Alfred Arthur Stanley, aged 24, of Kaikoura, and he was sentenced to four months’ hard labour. Both men pleaded guilty to breaking and entering a dwelling at Addington where they removed drawers from a duchess in a- room in which a man was sleeping. On this charge they were committed for sentence.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 January 1931, Page 2
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