“A MENACE TO THE COMMUNITY”

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 13 June 1925, Page 7

“A MENACE TO THE COMMUNITY”

A RUSSIAN SENTENCED (United Press Association.) AUCKLAND. This Day. Zachar Shostack. a Russian, came up foi- sentence in the Police Court on a charge of wilfully damaging a window valued at £lO. the property of St. Paul’s Church trustees; also on a further charge of assaulting Constable Callaghan. Constable Roberts said accused called at the police station one morning recently and confessed to breaking the window in St. Paul’s Church. In a statement Shostack said he was seeking revenge on the Catholic -Church, but. that ho made a mistake and broke a window in the wrong church. He said he wanted to show his body was alive and that it was not a mere spirit. Mr Poynston. S.M.: "This man has strong homicidal tendencies and ho might blow up a church. lie will have to he placed under restraint for the safety of the public." Senior-Sergeant Edwards said inquiries hail been made in an endeavour to have. Shostack deported, hut owing tithe fact that he had been in the country three years nothing could be done. "We will just have to put tip with him,” added the Senior-Sergeant. "Aseused had been sent back to England on his way to Russia, hut was not. allowed to land and it was difficult to get a shipping company to take him away.” .Mr Poynton : "This man is a menace to the community and will have to he put away for as long as possible. He will l)i* sentenced to three years’ reformative detention."