Burglars Told To Expect Little Or No Mercy

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30389, 13 March 1964, Page 10

Burglars Told To Expect Little Or No Mercy

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, March 12. Burglars who appeared before the Court on numerous counts could expect little or no mercy, warned Mr M. B. Scully, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today. “A person who has committed as many burglaries as you can expect no mercy at all,” he told Alan John Goddard, aged 22, a clerk, when sentencing him to a total of two years’ imprisonment. Goddard was appearing for sentence on 26 charges of burglary, one of attempted buglary and one of being a rogue and a vagabond by having in his possession without lawful excuse implements of housebreaking one jemmy, one pair of gloves, one torch and one glass cutter. The burglaries were committed in Wellington and its

suburbs between January 1 and February 27. At an earlier sitting,’ Sergeant G. T. Mills said that from the burglaries Goddard had stolen £7Ol in cash and goods and had caused damage to the extent of £lll. Of the money and goods stolen, only £6B 10s 7d had been recovered. Switched In.—The first power from the £7,000,000 Aratiatla hydro-electric project was fed into the national grid yesterday.—(P.A.)