GAOL AND FLOGGING
GANG STEFS PUNISHED. AUCKLAND SENTEXCBS.
(Special to “Northern Advocate.'’) AUCKLAND, This Day.
“Much as I dislike it, 1 must decide that physical violence such as was used in this case must be met by physical punishment as well as imprisonment,'' said Mr Justice Smith today, when sentencing Francis John Peckham, a Fijian, and ship's fireman, and William Kcough, a labourer, who were .found guilty of holding np a cashier in the streets on May 27 and stealing a payroll of over £l4O. His Honour said the crime was definitely one of the gangster type. The whole affair had been carefully planned, and one of the most serious aspects was that a number of people stood around without offering to help. It was intolerable that the streets in broad day-' fight should be unsafe for persons to carry money. Strongly deterrent sentences must be imposed to stop this kind of lawlessness. Peckham was sentenced to three years' gaol with hard labour and a flogging of .12 strokes, and Kcongh to two years’ gaol with hard labour, and a similar flogging.
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Northern Advocate, 12 August 1932, Page 6
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