PRISONER SENTENCED

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 4033, 16 September 1933, Page 6

PRISONER SENTENCED

PALMERSTON BANK HOLD UP ACCUSED SENT TO BORSTAL (Per Press Association) Wellington. September 15 Four years’ Borstal treatment "as the sentence imposed by the Chief Justice on William MacDonald, 19, who caused a sensation in Palmerston on August 11 bv holding up a hank teller and wh 0 also appeared for sentence for other offence s at Palmerston aud Ma^sterton. His Fir.our commented on certain »\traerdinarv features of the case and referred to the necessity of imposing a sentence which would l>e a deterrent to other youths. It might he that prisoner’s conduct called rather for treatment in a different kind of institution, hut there was no evidence to justify him acting on that assumption He would he kept under observation and the authorities would act as appeared necessary.