BREAKING AND ENTERING
Twelve" months',, imprisonment, with hard "labour,;; to ' be '■■''followed by twelve; months' reformative ...detention, was the sentence:'imposed- by* Mr. Justice ;■ Reed in the Supreme. Court yesterday, afternoon on Charles Ma-urice;Collins,. aged 24,-who had been- found '.guilty of breaking '< a,rid entering:and theft. His Honour said;that the prisoner: had;a: fair" number of previous convictions.' . ;. ' ['■"> ■■■ ■■'"ryl. '
Joseph ■ George Wy.eth, aged 20, whohad pleaded.guilty to a ; charge,of breaking:"and entering and theft; was ordered to be detained ..in-a Borstal institution; for a period. not exceeding^two-years.?'";;■■ ■.;'."■' ..'■', Counsel for Wyeth said that the accused appeared to have been influenced by an older nian who had been Btaying at his house. Both were unemployed when the offence was "committed.; ' " ■ '. ,
His Honour said that unfortunately it was not Wyeth's first offence of dishonesty. However, he was still a young man and there was some hope of him reforming, but in his own interests it was advisable that ho should be subjected to discipline. ■ : -
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 19
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157BREAKING AND ENTERING Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 19
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