MOVING PICTURE MORALS.
Pleading guiliy to two armed hold-ups in the Swansea Valley, Daniel Thomas Mainwiirinjr. twenty-four, miner, and his brother Gwjnfred, twenty, were sentenced at Swansea Assizes to twelve years* penal servitude and twenty-one months' hard labour respectively. When chased the elder man fired at n brother, acting as a decoy to draw the police on a false scent, had been captured on a molor bicycle which he had purchased with flip proceeds of robberies. The defence was that, the action* were inspired by sheer bravado after seeing n moving picture.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 213, 8 September 1923, Page 19
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92MOVING PICTURE MORALS. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 213, 8 September 1923, Page 19
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