PRISONERS SENTENCED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, August 2. On charges of breaking and entering and theft, Cyril Evans and Thomas Walter Ford, both aged .27, were each sentenced by his Honour Mr. Justice Kennedy in the Supreme Court today to one year's reformative detention. Michael Fitzgerald,: associated with them in the offences, was admitted to probation, his previous record being unblemished. . Thomas Francis Sullivan, Samuel Henry Holden, and David Reginald Holden, on charges of breaking and entering, and stealing petrol while touring the country in a. car, were placed on probation for three years on condition of restitution being made, i
His Honour commented that it was extraordinary that the younger Holden, who. was an infant in the eyes of the law,: should be tempted to' buy a car for £90 on hire purchase.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 13
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