YOUTHFUL BURGLARS.
reformative treatment. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. In the Supreme Court William Alfred Meagher and Jack Sydney Valentine Bott two youths found guilty of. various burglaries in the city, were sentenced, Bott to three years’ reformative treatment and Meagher to two Counsel said that one of the youths had been reading detective books to excess, some being of the Deadwood Other* 3 sentences were: Roland George Collins, 18 months’ gaol for issuing false cheques; Francis Edward Diggle, uttering a false, cheque, 18 months’ gaol; John Hamilton, agec 43, a married man, theft and forgery from a firm by whom he was employed, two years’ reformative treatment.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVII, Issue 10795, 15 December 1926, Page 5
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