ATTEMPTED ROBBERY
OLD MAN ASSAULTED. ■ACCUSED SENT TO GAOL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The maximum penalty of three years’ imprisonment with hard labour was imposed by Mr Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court today on Walter' Sydney Newell for assault with intent to' rob. Newell had admitted hitting an old man over the head in the public gardens. On Newell’s behalf.it was stated that he had come to Christchurch from Hamilton only about a month before he committed the. present offence. He was without money and was staying with friends. He was on probaten for the theft of a bicycle. At the time mental observation showed that Newell was free from any abnormality. The judge said that it might have been open to the police to charge him under a different section of the Act under which ne could have been sent to prison for life.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1939, Page 6
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148ATTEMPTED ROBBERY Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1939, Page 6
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