ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE
—*— • MEN SENT TO GAOL FOR FIVE YEARS
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 3.
“If you don’t stop this you will go back to prison for life,” Mr Justice Finlay told a habitual criminal, Maurice O’Connor, aged 49, a labourer and seaman in the Supreme Court today. His Honour sentenced him to five years’ hard labour for- robbery, using personal violence. A partner in the crime, Edward Ernest Aitken, aged 33, a labourer, was declared a habitual criminal and was also sentenced to five years* hard labour.
Both men were also sentenced to one year’s hard labour on each of two counts of attempted false pretences. O'Connor, on a third charge of false pretences, was sentenced to 18 months’ hard labour. All the terms ate to be concurrent with the five-year sentenceOn the pretence that they could sell him sugar, O’Connor and Aitken took a milkbar proprietor to a lane in the city, beat him unconscious and robbed him of £3O. They told two other persons they could sell them sugar, but detectives intervened.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26491, 4 August 1951, Page 2
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