REFORMATION DETENTION

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 October 1939, Page 2

REFORMATION DETENTION

JEWEL THIEVES SENTENCED I.per PREua association.] AUCKLAND. October 19. Having pleaded guilty to a series of breaking and entering and theft charges, involving cash, jewellery, and goods valued at over £lOOO, Kenneth Hugh Bennetts. 21. was sentenced to throe years’ reformative detention, by Mr. Justice Fair. Arraigned for sentence with Bennetts were Lee Leonard Colquhoun. 25, who was sentenced to 12 months’ reformative detention on one charge of breaking and entering and theft, and Allan Farquhar Young, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking, entering ami theft, but who was not represented by counsel, and was stood down until next, sentence day. The charges related to numerous thefts from dwellings, and burglaries in two city jewellers’ shops by Bennetts, who was in one case associated with Colquhoun. and in the other with Young. Counsel for Bennetts stated that over £6OO worth, of jewellery had been sold to a man in Wellington, for which Bennetts received £lO only.

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