OTAKI BURGLARY.
THREE' YEARS' IMPRISONMENT. A sentence of three vein's' j ment, for reformative purposes, was imposed on Robert George Neill, an IS-ycar-old youth who confessed to j breaking, entering, and theft at. | Messrs Bills and Moore's premises at ' Otnki. In passing sentence his Honor j said thill the prisoner had been convicted in .Inly of this ycaT of three j similar charges, in respect of which he I was granted probation for a period oi ■ three years, but no sooner was he at ; large "than lie immediately embarks:! j on a similar career of crime. Appar- ! entlv, he hud no sense of respousibil \ it v. "and he had to be taught that to j commit crime was not a joke.—"N.Z : Times." j
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 20 October 1920, Page 3
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