TURNED TO CRIME
EFFECT OF ACCIDENT SOLDIER GAOLED WITH HARD LABOUR After being badly smashed up in a train accident, Summers Heruika Edwards started committing foolish crimes. He appeared for sentence at the Supreme Court this morning on charges of breaking and entering. His counsel said that after returning from the war, Edwards was in a train accident at Otahuhu. He was badly smashed up and afterwards was easily affected by drink, going about committing crime in a most foolish fashion. In the case under review Edwards took a suitcase of material from a house, and was arrested when drunk, dragging the case along the streets? His Honour said prisoner’s nature seemed to have changed after the accident, and it was difficult to know what to do with him. He would agree to the appeal to put him at hard labour, the period being two years. During the period prisoner would he observed in an endeavour to solve the problem of what to do with him. v
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 424, 4 August 1928, Page 1
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167TURNED TO CRIME Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 424, 4 August 1928, Page 1
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