DANGEROUS CRIMINAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 19 June 1931, Page 4

DANGEROUS CRIMINAL

ROBBERY AND VIOLENCE SENTENCE OF SIX YEARS "' T (By Telegraph—Press Association) DUNEDIN, 18th June. ,In the Supreme Court this morning, Thomas William Wilson and Rupert Saunders were sentenced by Mr Justice Kennedy. Wilson was dealt with on charges of breaking and entering the premises of the Hudson Fur Company and stealing goods valued at £500; the premises of R. S. Black, and stealing goods valued at £450; the premises of Dawson and Co., and stealing jewellery valued at £8000; the premises of W. J. Paterson and stealing jewellery valued at £841; and with assaulting Walter G. Bossiter and. doing previous bodily harm to Jane Rossiter. lie was sentenced to live years’ imprisonment in all, with one year’s reformative detention thereafter. Saunders received a sentence of three years’ reformative detention for assaulting Rossiter with intent to roll. His Honour remarked that, following drunken limits, Saunders fell in with Wilson’s suggestions, and liis crime was not attended with brutality. After reviewing Wilson's Australian convictions, liis Honour said lie regarded him as a callous, brutal, and dangerous criminal. Within six months lie had stolen goods valued at £4791, and £8801) worth of jewellery was still unreenvered, the proceeds of which, most likely, lie hoped to enjoy when released. lie committed a cruel, brutal assault on an old man and- liis wife, and merited exemplary punishment.