ARMED ROBBERY
TWO YOUTHS SENTENCED CRIME RARE IN DOMINION (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Tuesday Commenting that the crime of robbery under arms had been rare in New Zealand compared with Australia and the United States, and that the Court did not want it to start in this country, Mr Justice Reed sentenced John McDonald, aged 21, to two years’ reformative detention, and Horace Timothy O'Connor, aged 18, to two years’ detention in a borstal institution.
His Honour remarked that prisoners had been in New Zealand only a short time and \vere not making a very good start. Flogging might have been advisable, but with prisoners of their age the Court always, if possible, leaned to leniency.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20920, 27 September 1939, Page 12
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116ARMED ROBBERY Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20920, 27 September 1939, Page 12
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