CRIME TOO COMMON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 187, 9 August 1932, Page 9

CRIME TOO COMMON.

ENTERING OF SHOPS AND THEFT. SENTENCES AT WANGANUI. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WANGANUI, Monday. "This class of crime is becoming altogether too common, and it is very disquieting to find young men like tiiese going about the country as they have been doing, entering shops, damaging property and taking goods," said Mr. Justice MacGregor, in the Supreme Court to-day, when imposing terms of imprisonment on prisoners who had pleaded guilty to charges of breaking, entering and theft. "I see no reason for extending probation," ho added. Herbert Vivian Walkington Buttrey, labourer, aged 23, with 17 charges against him, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, and his Honor directed that the prison medical authorities should examine liim with a view to determining whether his mentality was normal.

Thomas Butler, farmer, aged 30, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment, Victor Robert Ward, labourer, aged 24, and Clarence William Davey, labourer, aged 24, to two years' imprisonment. four men were concerned in a series of 18 burglaries which were committed in Wanganui between December, 1931, and July, 1932. Clarence Ambs Woods, aged 24, and Francis Thomas Durran, aged 29, both labourers, were- each sentenced to nine months' imprisonment on charges relating to attempted breaking and entering at"a store at Rata, near Wanganui.