HAD HIS CHANCE
YOUTH’S SECOND CRIME ONE YEAR’S REFORMATIVE One year’s reformative treatment, with a recommendation that the prisoner should be placed in the Borstal Institute, was the sentence imposed by Mr. Justice Ostler, in the Supreme Court today, on Raymond Trevor Child, aged 21, for breaking, entering and theft from the dwelling. Mr. Noble, for the prisoner, admitted the young man had been in trouble previously. He had worked well for eight or nine months, but for three months prior to this offence he was unemployed. The crime, however, was the, outcome of a drunken spree, said counsel, the prisoner having got in with bad company., His Honour remarked that accused had ben admitted to probation at Hamilton last September for theft, and was still serving that term when he commited thi~crime. “You have had your chance.” added liis Honour in passing sentence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 941, 7 April 1930, Page 10
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144HAD HIS CHANCE Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 941, 7 April 1930, Page 10
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