Desperate Criminals

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6788, 20 February 1932, Page 2

Desperate Criminals

DUFFY AND BREWER RECEIVE SEVERAL SENTENCES. OVER FIVE YEARS TO BE ' SERVED Fer Press Association. INVERCARGILL, Feb. 19. Maurice Patrick Duffy and William Leonard Brewer were sentenced by Mr Justice Kennedy to five and a-lialf years’ hard labour for breaking and entering the dwelling of the bank manager at Edendale. His Honour said flic accused, when they entered the house, were masked and had a loaded rifle and a sandbag, and both the manager and his wife were attacked. Duffy had been pursuing a criminal course for some time, and the attack was very violent. Brewer carried the loaded rifle, with which he threatened the manager and his wife, and he attempted to gag the latter. Brewer’s past record showed that this crime did not stand alone. Both sentences are concurrent with other sentences.

Duffy and Thomas O’Connor were sentenced, for breaking and entering, the Majestic Theatre, the former prisoner to eighteen months’ hard laboui, and the latter to eighteen months’ reformative treatment. •

Duffy was also sentenced to eigh teen months for breaking and enticing tiie Regent Theatre; and on four charges of receiving stolen property, he received sentence of one year’s hard labour. All the sentences are concurrent.

William Leonard Brewer, for tho theft of the Ocean Beach pay-roll of £827, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to two vears’ hard labour.

Thomas Harold Brewer, for receiving money knowing it. to have been dishonestly obtained, was sentenced to two years’ reformative treatment.