"GRAVE OFFENCE"
INTENT TO ROB
TWO MEN SENTENCED
Tound guilty last week of assault with intent to rob, Walter Eraser Sheriffs Harneiss, alias William Fraser, and James Burman were each sentenced to four years' j imprisonment by his Honour Mr. Justice j Blair in the Supreme Court to-day. Counsel for the prisoners (Mr. J. D. Willis) said that in view of their previous records he found it-hard to say anything which might influence th? Court in their favour. There was a time in England, said his Honour, in passing sentence, when robbery with violence was always punished by flogging. According to criminal law, it was looked upon as a very grave offence. The prisoners had got hold of a half-drunken man and had throttled him and attempted to rob him. Harneisfs had already been convicted of a similar offence for which he had received eighteen months' imprisonment, in Christekurch in 1023. Bin-man's early record .was not as bad, but he also had served terms of imprisonment..
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 110, 12 May 1930, Page 11
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