STOLEN PROPERTY
Refusal to Disclose Whereabouts of Goods TWO MEN SENT TO PRISON By Telegraph—-Press Association. Auckland. April 28. Describing the offences as most serious, Mr. Justice Herdman sentenced James Bernard Lawless, aged 25. to three years’ hard labour, and Jack Kavanagh, aged 22, to two years’ hard labour. They bad admitted seven charges of burglary, and had stolen goods worth £l5OO, Counsel for Hie prisoners suggested that being out: of work, they had much idle time to concoct the offences, it might be a condition of the times, but it seemed a pity that a young man of 22 should be before Hie Court. ’ After saying that £6OO worth of property had been stolen, his Honour asked Hie prisoners: "Where is that property?” Kavanagh replied: ft has been disposed of. His Honour: To whom? Neither prisoner answered. His Houourff Very well. The police say you have stubbornly refused to say wlml: you did with il.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 182, 29 April 1933, Page 13
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156STOLEN PROPERTY Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 182, 29 April 1933, Page 13
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