ENTERED HOUSE TO ASSAULT OWNER
TWO MEM CONVICTED [Feb Unit*!* Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 2. The trial of Leonard Cluard and Frederick Krnesfc Ward on four charges, including arson, was concluded in the Supreme Court to-day. * His Honour, in summing up, said that drunkenness or anger was no excuse for crime, in any case, there wag no evidence that the accused were drunk at the time, although it appeared that they had consumed more liquor than was good for them. I'rora the evidence the jury might come to the conclusion that the accused broke and entered the house with the intention of committing the crime of assault. After a retirement lasting four hours the jury found Cluard guilty on a breaking and entering charge and also on a charge of setting fire to clothes and blankets, but not guilty on arson and mischief charges. Ward was found guilty on a breaking and entering charge only, a recommendation to leniency being made in his case. The accused were remanded for sentence.
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Evening Star, Issue 21710, 3 May 1934, Page 13
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170ENTERED HOUSE TO ASSAULT OWNER Evening Star, Issue 21710, 3 May 1934, Page 13
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