CALLOUS CRIMINAL.
JUDGE’S STRONG REMARKS. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, June 18. ’ In tlie Supreme Court, Thomas William Wilson and Rupert Saunders were sentenced this morning by Mr Justice Kennedy. The former was sentenced on charges of breaking and entering and theft from the Hudson Fur Company of £500; from R. S. Black, £450; from Dawson and Co., jewellery valued at £3000; from W. A. Paterson, jewellery valued at £841; for assaulting Walter G. Rossiter and doing grievous bodily harm to Jane Rossiter. He got five years’ imprisonment in all, with one year’s reformative detention thereafter. Saunders received a sentence of three years’ reformative detention for assaulting Mr Rossiter with intent to rob, the Judge remarking that, following drunken bouts, accused fell in with W,ilson’s suggestions and liis crime was not attended with brutality. The Judge, after reviewing Wilson’s Australian convictions, said he regarded him as a callous, brutal and dangerous criminal. Within six months lie had stolen goods valued at £4791, and £3BOO .in jewellery was still unrecovered, the prooeeds of which, most likely, he hoped to enjoy when released. 1
The cruel, brutal assault on an old man and his wife merited exemplary punishment.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 169, 19 June 1931, Page 11
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195CALLOUS CRIMINAL. Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 169, 19 June 1931, Page 11
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