EXTRA THREE YEARS’ PRISON FOR ROBBERY
(P.A.) AUCKLAND. Dec. 17. A Maori labourer, Adam Whakaue, aged 18, who had pleaded guilty in the Police Court to joining in the robbery of an elderly Chinaman in Grey’s Avenue of money and three bank dratts totalling £730 after the accused had escaped from gaol was brought before Mr. Justice Stanton in the Supreme Court yesterday. The judge added three years’ hard labour to a sentence of three years which Whakaue was serving. The accused was charged with escaping from custody, theft from a dwellinghouse, theft, breaking and entering and theft, and robbery with violence.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22822, 17 December 1948, Page 3
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102EXTRA THREE YEARS’ PRISON FOR ROBBERY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22822, 17 December 1948, Page 3
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