High School Pupil On Murder Charge
(N.Z. Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, April 12. Roger John Bennett, aged 15, a high school pupil, appeared before Mr A. W. Yortt, S.M., in the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with the murder of Alexander Stuart Black, at Inglewood, on Wednesday. No plea was taken. Bennett was remanded in custody at the New Plymouth prison until May 26. The Magistrate ordered that Bennett be kept strictly apart from all other prisoners.
Mr M. Reeves, for the defendant, asked for suppression of name. “I know that this is a capital offence, but the boy is only 15 and is being remanded. There are other people in his family,” Mr Reeves said. The Magistrate said he was not prepared to grant suppression in a case of this nature. Detective Senior-Sergeant J. P. Crozier appeared for the police. Mr Black, aged 45, principal of the Inglewood High School, was shot dead in the foyer of the school on Wednesday.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31653, 13 April 1968, Page 34
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