RETRIAL ASKED.
j. OUTH WHO PLEADED GUILTY
PROMISE BY DETECTIVE ALLEGED (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTC'HURCH, this day. Mr. Lawry, S.M., adjourned till tomorrow an" application for a re-trial made by Robert William Allen, aged 18, who was sentenced to two years in the Borstal Institute yesterday for receiving stolen goods. Counsel for the prisoner said Allen had been induced to plead guilty by a detective, who promised him that if he pleaded guiltv no harm would come to him. Allen said he was innocent of the charges.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 174, 25 July 1928, Page 9
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87RETRIAL ASKED. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 174, 25 July 1928, Page 9
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