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On a charge of breaking, entering, and theft at Waipukurau, Boy Baxter Caulton and Francis Henry Ernest Pierce were each sentenced to IS months' reformative detention; by Mr. Justice Beed in the Supreme Court yesterday.
Mr. R. 11. Boys, on behalf of Caultou, asked the Court to endeavour to do something to help the prisoner to pull himself together. Due to a depressed state of mind, the prisoner seemed to be drifting into a life of crime. His personal circumstances were extremely unfortunate and appeared to be tending to influence his manner of life. Mr. Boys mentioned, among other matters, that Caulton was a sufferer from chronic asthma, as a result of which he had had a poor schooling. His friends felt, Mr. Boys added, that he was suffering from what psychologists might call a complex. He had shrugged his shoulders, as it were, and thrown up his hands at life. j Pierce was unrepresented by counsel and had nothing to say.
His Honour said he thought both prisoners must be locked up for the protection of the public.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 96, 20 October 1934, Page 7
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183A COMPLEX Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 96, 20 October 1934, Page 7
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