‘DANGEROUS YOUNG GANG’

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 791, 11 October 1929, Page 1

‘DANGEROUS YOUNG GANG’

BROKEN UP BY SUPREME COURT NEW PLYMOUTH BURGLARIES Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. “A dangerous young gang of criminals,” was the description given by the Chief Justice, the Hon. M. Myers, in sentencing a number of youths today. They had pleaded guilty at New Plymouth to charges of breaking and entering by night and theft and breaking and entering’ with intent to commit crime and receiving. James Mullally, aged 22, for breaking and entering and theft on two charges, who had been sentenced at New Plymouth to three years’ reformative detention, had his sentence increased to five years. William Claude White, aged 21, for breaking entering, theft and receiving, was similarly treated. Samuel Patrick White, aged 19, for breaking, entering and theft on three charges, Leonard Michael White, aged 17, on the same counts, and John Mullally, aged 19, for breaking, entering and theft on five charges, and breaking and entering, with intent to commit crime, were each sentenced to five years in the Borstal Institute, with a recommendation to the authorities that they be kept in separate institutions if possible. to break up the association. Charles Edward King, aged 20, for breaking, entering and theft, was given two years’ probation. His Honour said that King might have been led to the offence by the id that the others were heroes. They were not; they were criminals, and criminals of a bad type.