BREAKING AND ENTERING.
THIS CRIME INCREASING. HEAVIER SENTENCES NEEDED. (Bj Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRLSTCHURCH. this day. Six prisoners appeared for sentence at the Supreme Court to-day, charged with breaking and entering. Mr. Justice Adams said that no doubt this type of crime was increasing. Obviously the Court must take some other meaui of dealing with offenders. The heaviest sentences for breaking and entering to-day were two years' imprisonment and two years" reformative. Charles Edward Southerwood, aged 22. on three charges of breaking and entering and theft, was sentenced to two years' reformative. His Honor said the reports showed that even in Southerwood's own home the rooms had to be locked to keep things from him.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1926, Page 3
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114BREAKING AND ENTERING. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1926, Page 3
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