FLOGGINGS ORDERED
UPON TWO GANGSTERS CAREFULLY' PLANNED CRIME JUDGE’S STRONG COMMENTS (Per Pregs Association) Auckland, Aug. 12. “Much as I dislike it. .1 must decide that physical violence, such as was used in this case, must bo met b.v physical punishment, as well as by imprisonment,” sail Mr. Justice Smith. when sentencing Francis Beckham, a Fijian ship's fireman, and William Keogh, a labourer, found guilty of holding up a cashier in the street on May 27 and stealing a payroll of over £llO. His Honour said the crime was definitely one of the gangster type. 9 lie- whole affair liad been carefully planned an I one of the “most serious aspects was that a number of people stood round without offering to help. It was intolerable that the streets in broad daylight should be unsafe for persons who carried money. Strongly deterrent. sentence must be imposed to stop this kind of lawlessness. Beckham was sentenced to three year. l .' hard labour and a flogging of 12 strokes and Keogh to two years’ haul labour with a simihi.r Hogging.
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 2796, 13 August 1932, Page 7
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