THIEVES GO TO GAOL
VARIED OFFENCES SUPREME COURT SENTENCES Press Association WELLINGTON, Thursday. William Henry Cooper, for breaking and entering and theft at Wanganui, was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention by Mr. Justice MacGregor in the Wellington Supreme Court today John Langlois Maxwell Lefroy, for theft as a bank servant and for forgery at Pahiatua, received two years in a Borstal Institution. William Robert James Miller, farm manager, of Levin, for theft, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment. Lewis Edmund Rohloff and William James Ashmore, youths of 16, were both sentenced to four years in a Borstal Institution for breaking and entering and theft. His Honour stressed his belief that discipline was needed to prevent them entering on a life of crime.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 689, 14 June 1929, Page 16
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