A BOY ABSCONDER
SENT TO BORSTAL INSTITUTE
(United Press Association.)
PALMERSTON N., 7th May
“He will have to be put where ho cannot get into mischief. The best placo for him is the Borstal Institute, where he will Slav for a term of three years, stated Mr'Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, in sentencing Roy Stanley Sutton, 17.1, who pleaded guilty to- absconding from licensed service'a' Ash-hurst and with assaulting a, young girl. Senior Detective Quirke slated That the facts were really graver than tho charge indicated, hut the girls father did not want the child mixed up in such a case.
The cable nows in this issue accredited to “The Times" has appea red in that journal, but only where expressly stated is sorb news the editorial opinion oi "The Times.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 May 1927, Page 4
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134A BOY ABSCONDER Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 May 1927, Page 4
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