FOUR YEARS’ JAIL
Robbery From Chinese . (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. February 11. • For robbery from a Chinese fruiterer when, with his brother and two American servicemen, he drove a car and waited outside the shop while two others went in and assaulted and robbed the Chinese, Edwin James Jarvis, boot repairer, aged 24, was today sentenced by Mr. Justice Fair to four years’ imprisonment with hard labour. Accused’s counsel, Mr. Sullivan, asked that any sentence imposed be made concurrent with the sentence of two years aud two months imposed in Wellington for the theft of benzine and the car used in the robbery and in the subsequent escape to Wellington and for the offences there. The judge said Jarvis had a bad record dating back to when be was 18 and was put on probation. He had served two terms in Borstal, and had shown himself incorrigible. The public had to be protected. The sentence of four years would be concurrent with the sentence he was at present serving. -
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 117, 12 February 1944, Page 8
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