YOUTH’S IMPRISONMENT
PETITION FOR RELEASE MORE MISCHIEF THAN CRIME (THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter.j WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Seeking cancellation of an order for imprisonment for one year of Herbert Kilburn, junr., of Auckland, and a recommendation that he be placed on probation, Kilburn’s father and 2,000 others have petitioned Parliament. The petition, which was introduced by Mr. W. J. Jordan to-day, stated that Kilburn, who is a youth of almost
IS, was found guilty of breaking u ; H entering with intent to c . crime, but the jury brought in . recommendation to mercy tfc bation officer recommended youth be admitted to probation * . ever, the Judge sentenced Ki« one year’s imprisonment w labour. t The petitioners feel that «WJ J has been done, as the sen > l,! ?® „ rf ' youth to gaol would, they sa^. him into a criminal, and the was really one of miscniei*
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 125, 17 August 1927, Page 12
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141YOUTH’S IMPRISONMENT Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 125, 17 August 1927, Page 12
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