WERAROA ESCAPEES.
Two lads, Norman Paul Nesbit and Reuben Curtis Warnock, who had absconded from the Weraroa training farm and broken into two dwellinghouses at Palmerston North, stealing a wristlet watch, jewellery, and £S 10s in money, came up for sentence in the supreme Court at Wellington on Friday. Nesbit, said his Honour, had a very bad record for a boy only 17 years of age. He had started to steal in 1919, j and had not taken advantage or the opportunity given him then to make good, as he was convicted on four charges of - theft three months later and sent to I Weraroa. 'Three times he had run away, and then had committed the offences at Palmerston North. He was sentenced to three years’ re-, formative detention at Invercargill. , I Warnoek, 19 years of age, said that' j he and Nesbit had agreed to run away i from Weraroa together, and that while , in company they had broken into the two houses at Paltnsrston. i His Honour ordered that the lad should be detained for reformative pur- * poses for a year, and that he should be . kept apart from Nesbit.
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Otaki Mail, 3 April 1922, Page 1
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