YOUTHS’ ASSAULT ON WARDER
COURT ORDERS REFORMATIVE DETENTION
(PKESS ASSOCIATION TBLBSKAM.) f? DUNEDIN, December 13.For assaulting a warder at the Borstal at Invercargill before making their escape. Manuel Poihipi and George William Chase, both aged 19, were sentenced in the Supreme Court t0‘,15 months’ reformative detention. The warder was struck with a lead bar wrapped in a handkerchief and dragged into a cubicle.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23203, 14 December 1940, Page 16
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