SENSELESS DAMAGE
TWO YOUTHS BEFORE COURT \ DETENTION FOR TWO YEARS \ [United Press Association) ' DUNEDIN, 4th December. 1 Sentencing two youths of 17 years, i Allen Wilson Parmenter and Albert ; Raymond Lawrie. to Borstal detention : for two years on charges of breaking and entering the theft at Dunedin and • Invercargill, Mr Justice Kennedy said that in both cases the accused had com- , milted senseless damage to the premises. At Invercargill, flour, tea. sugar ard eggs were thrown round the walls, , earth from flower pots scattered, pic- ; tures and a clock smashed, and gas ♦aps turned on, filling the house with 1 gas: while in Dunedin an electric '• heater was smashed, a door kicked in, : ard bottles of ink thrown over scattered documents Both had been before Court pre- ( viou-dv and warned
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 5 December 1940, Page 3
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