THE DYNAMITE BURGLARIES.
I PRISONERS SENTENCED. i By Telegraph —Press Association. * WELLINGTON, August 17. Before Mr Justice Cooper, three men named John Dryden Hamilton, George Ferris and William Robeit Sinclair, who were convicts fHM burglariously entering the premises of Laery and Co., and by means of dynamite, breaking open the safe, were set forward for sentence. Ferris and Sinclair had also pleaded guilty to two other charges of burglary and Hamilton had been found guilty of receiving articles which he knew to have been stolen. His Honor, in passing sentence, said there was no doubt in his mind that the prisoners were very dangerous men and the community would be much safer for their conviction. For the offence of breaking and entering Laery and Co. 's premises and committing robbery, the accused would each be sentenced to ten years' hard labour. Ferris and Sinclair would be sentenced to five years' imprisonment on each of the charges to which they had pleaded guilty. Hamilton would also receive a sentence of five years on the other charges. In effect, the punishment inflicted amounts to fifteen years' imprisonment on each prisoner.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8513, 19 August 1907, Page 4
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188THE DYNAMITE BURGLARIES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8513, 19 August 1907, Page 4
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