GAOL FOR THEFT
THREE MEN SENTENCED. <BI TELBQRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, This Day. At the Police Court, Joseph Bedford (23), Robert Kearney (23), and Horace Smith (24), were charged that they did rob Samuel Clifford Priestley of 265, and immediately before such robbery did use violence to Priestley. They were alternatively charged with having stolen £4 from Priestley.. The latter was a masseur from whom Bedford received treatment, and introduced the other defendants, it apparently being agreed that if Priestley would not give them money they would take it from him. The charge was reduced to one of common theft. Kearney was sentenced to six months in prison, and Bedford and Smith to six months each, followed by twelve months' reformative detention.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1924, Page 8
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121GAOL FOR THEFT Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1924, Page 8
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