ASSAULT AND THEFT
TWO YOUTHS SENTENCED THE TAXI-DRIVER CASE (By Telegraph—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Found guilty of theft at Rangiora, and of assault on a Kaiapoi taxi-driver, round whose neck they pulled a looped cord, two youths, each aged 20 years, were sentenced by Mr Justice Johnston this, morning. James Ernest Baggstrom received two years’ imprisonment with hard labour, to be followed by one year’s reformative detention, and Henry Crawford, one year’s gaol, followed by one vear’s reformative detention.
Mr Justice Johnston said that Baggstrom seemed to regard a series of crimes as almost within his natural province. The Court could not let it be though* that such an assault was not a very grave matter. Crawford seemed to be under Baggstrom’s influence.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 28 September 1934, Page 4
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124ASSAULT AND THEFT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 28 September 1934, Page 4
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