ASKED FOR GAOL TERM
(0.C.) HAMILTON, Monday. \ preference for imprisonment rather than a term of probation was expressed by John Williams iio>. a cook, when he pleaded guilty before justices at Hamilton to-day to a charge of attempting to break ana enter the shop of John McKeown at Frankton on July i:i. Evidence was given that accused broke tne panel in the door of the shop. \\ hen arrested he said another man asked him to break the panel. He did not enter the shop, and nothing was stolen. . , When asking for a term of imprisonment accused said that reporting while on probation was very inconvenient and embarrassing, as he would probably be in the country. Accused was committed for sentence.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 171, 22 July 1941, Page 10
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120ASKED FOR GAOL TERM Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 171, 22 July 1941, Page 10
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