TRAIL OF THEFTS
TWO YOUTHS’ CRIMES MANY OFFENCES IN TARANAKI Press Association NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday. Archibald William Parkes, aged 19, and Oswald Henry Parker, aged IS, admitted in the Police Court to-day that they were the perpetrators of numerous night and day burglaries from shops of tobacconists and chemists in New Plymouth. Each was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment with hard labour on the summary charges, and committed for sentence for the indictable offences. The youths worked singly and together, and generally selected holiday periods or quiet parts of the day to carry on operations. Buildings were entered from back-yards. Doors and windows were then forced and broken or locks removed. Parker had been admitted to probation several times previously. Parkes also pleaded guilty to the theft of many cases of benzine from farms and other places in the country and of a whole cheese from a dairy factory. In these offences he had as partners Jack McDowell, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, and Thomas John Henry Withers, who was admitted to probation for two years. <
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 576, 31 January 1929, Page 6
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181TRAIL OF THEFTS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 576, 31 January 1929, Page 6
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