TWO YEARS’ BORSTAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 138, 24 March 1939, Page 5

TWO YEARS’ BORSTAL.

THREE YOUNG MEN SENTENCED. GUILTY OF HOUSEBREAKING. (Per Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Fifteen charges -of housebreaking were shared among three young men who appeared for sentence before Mr Justice Northcroft this morning. Arrested in Dunedin, they broke out of the exercise yard at the jimaru lockup while awaiting the hearing of charges of housebreaking there, and were consequently charged also with escaping from lawful custody. Tho thre-o men were Frank Dixon, Carfield Frederick John William Smith, and Claude Byron Hill. '• Dixon alone pleaded guilty to six charges of housebreaking. . In one other charge of housebreaking he was associated with Hill, while all three were associated in two charges of housebreaking as well as the charge of escaping from custody. Announcing that be did not intend to , discriminate among the three, his Honor said that while it was true that: this was Hill’s first appearance in' Court, he now appeared on some 10 charges, while he, with others, had yet to be dealt with on four charges of converting cars. ; “These youths seem to have, assumed, a licence to prey on the community as they think fit, and their attitude, if not checked, will lead to their spending most of their lives in gaol,” said his Honor! “My duty to them, as well as to the community, is to'put them Under-restraint.” ' ‘ ‘All three men were sent to the Bor-, stal for two years.'