CRIME OF THE GANGSTER TYPE
HOLD-UP OF CASHIER. FLOGGING FOR TWO ACCUSED. By Telegraph—Press Association Auckland, August 12. "Much as I dislike it, I must decide that physical violence such as was used in this case must be met by physical punishment as well as by imprisonment,” said Mr Justice Smith to-day when sentencing Francis John Peckham, a Fijian ship’s fireman, and William Keogh, a labourer, who were found guilty of holding-up a cashier in the street on May 27, and stealing a payroll of over £l4O. His Honour said that the crime was definitely one of the gangster type. The whole affair was carefully planned, and one of the most serious aspects was that a number oi people stood around without offering to help in capturing the men. It was intolerable that the streets in broad daylight should be unsafe for persons who carried money. Strongly deterrent sentences must be imposed to stop that kind of lawlessness. Peckham was sentenced to three years' hard labour and a flogging of twelve strokes, and Keogh to two years’ hard labour with a similar flogging.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 204, 12 August 1932, Page 7
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