DREW LOCK WITH LACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 3

DREW LOCK WITH LACE.

HOLE BORED IN DOOR. YOUNG MAN SENT TO BORSTAL. A labourer, Albert Gardner (21), who had bored a hole in a door and drawn the lock by putting a lace through the hole, was sent to the Waikeria Borstal Institute for two years when he appeared for sentence before Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court to-day. A charge of breaking and entering a shop by night and theft was admitted. "Evidently you possess some knowledge of the art of housebreaking," said his Honour to the accused when lie stepped into tne dock. Gardner had been convicted once before of breaking and entering, and sentenced to two years in the Borstal Institute. It was hoped that the punishment would do him good, but it had not done so. COURT SHOWS LENIENCY. Two years' reformative detention was the sentence'passed upon Albert Hubert Callaghan (31), committed from Pukekohe, for breaking and entering a house at night. . His Honor said he was not sure whether the accused was mentally well equipped, but that could be ascertained when he was in gaol. Since 1920 he had committed.a number of offences, including thefts at Palmerston North, Wellington and Auckland. In the present instance he would be dealt with leniently because of a report that he was mentally weak and unable to go straight.