SIX YEARS' TERM

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 13

SIX YEARS' TERM

DANGEROUS CRIMINAL

ROBBERY AND VIOLENCE

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, This Day.

In the Supreme Court this morning, Thomas William Wilson and Rupert Saun : ders were sentenced by Mr. Justice Kennedy. , -. . . Wilson was dealt with on charges of breaking and entering the premises of the Hudson Fur Company and stealing goods valued at £600; the premises of E. S. Black, and stealing goods valued at^S<lso; tjijj premises of Dawson and Co., and stealing jewellery valued at £3000; 'the premises of W.. J. Paterson aiid.'.stealing jewellery valued at £841'; and with assaulting Walter G. Bossitcr and doing grievous bodily harm to Jane Rossiter'. He was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in all, with one year's reformative detention thereafter.

Saunders received a sentence of three years' reformative detention for assaulting Rossiter with intent to rob. His Honour remarked that, following drunken bouts, Saunders fell in with Wilson's suggestions, and his crime was not attended with, brutality. / After reviewing Wilson's Australian convictions, his Honour said he regarded him as a callous; brutal, and dangerous criminal. ' Within six months he had stolen goods valued, at £4791, and £3800 worth of jewellery was still unrecovered, the proceeds of which, most likely* he hoped to enjoy when released. He committed a cruel, brutal assault on an; old man and his wife, and merited exemplary punishment. :'" ..." ' '.' ' , ■