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Northern Advocate, 3 May 1934, Page 5

LIKE AN ARSENAL

FORMIDABLE WEAPONS HOUSEBREAKING PURPOSES SALUTARY PENALTY (Per Press Association. —Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The discovery of being In possession of a large assortment of weapons and housebreaking' Implements resulted in George Albert Edwards being sentenced in the Supreme Court at Wellington yesterday to a term of two years’ reformative detention, in addition to the maximum penalty of 12 ; months’ imprisonment with hard labour, Mr Justice Reed commented severely on the nature of the weapons and said that an example must be made to other similar offenders. The articles were bottle ammonia, a water pistol, an. automatic pistol with one round of ammunition, a Jemmy, two pairs of rubber gloves, eight detonators, four pieces of fuse, two and a half sticks of gelignite, and a piece of rubber hose with lead at one end. It was staled that the water pistol had at some time contained ammonia. Pests had been made with it, and it had been found to have a range of JO feet. Edwards pleaded that the weapons were not his own, but had been given him by another .person.