DAMAGE DONE IN HOUSE
THREE PERSONS ' SENTENCED (New Zealand Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 6. Two men and a woman who had been found jointly guilty of breaking and entering a house in Wellington and committing mischief therein, by damaging a window and furniture to the value of £lOO, were sentenced by Mr Justice Gresson in the Supreme Court to-day. His Honour described the offence as a planned wrecking expedition and remarked that not a word had been said as to what had prompted it. Wallis - Reid Wells, aged 38, a motordriver, and William Albert Gaines, aged 51, a salesman, were each sentenced to six months’ hard labour on each charge, to be served concurrently, and Olive May Wahren, aged 39, a cashier, was admitted to two years’ probation.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25797, 7 May 1949, Page 2
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