BREAKING AND ENTERING.
FOUR BAD YOUTHS. THREE MONTHS'. BORSTAL. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star."i WELLINGTON, this day. Robert Seymour James, Basil Frederick Baillie, William Hugh Urquhart and Stuart Askew John Robertson, four youths, each aged 18, appeared for sentence the Chief Justice to-day on charges of breaking, entering and theft at Wellington. His Honor said he felt wholly unable to differentiate between any one prisoner and the 'rest. It was shocking, he said, that young men like prisoners, who were quite" capable of doing well in the world and of leading respectable lives, should find themselves in this position. He did not intend to increase the sencence whica the magistrate hah imposed on other charges. The magistrate had exercised a wise discretion. Each prisoner was sentenced to three months at Borstal.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 205, 30 August 1926, Page 9
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