SERIES OF BURGLARIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 14

SERIES OF BURGLARIES.

" DANGEROUS YOUNG GANG." COMMENT BY CHIEF JUSTICE. [by telegraph.—puess association.] WKLLINGTON, Friday. "A dangerous young gang of criminals" was the description given by the Chief Justice, the Hon. M. Myers, in sentencing a number of youths to-day. They had pleaded guilty at New Plymouth to charges of broaking and entering by night and theft and breaking and entering with intent, to commit crime and receiving. James Mullally, aged 22, for breaking oriel entering arid theft on two charges, who had been sentenced at New Plymouth to three years' reformative detention, had his sentence increased to five years. William Claude White, entering, theft and receiving, was similarly treated. Samuel Patrick White, sged 19, for breaking, entering and, theft on three charges, Leonard Michael White, aged 17, on the same counts, and John Mullally) aged 19, for breaking, entering and theft on five charges, and breaking and entering, with intent to commit crime, were each sentenced to five years in the Borstal /Institute, with a recommendation to the authorities that they be kept in separate institutions if possible, to break up the association. Charles Edward King, a m \ 20, for breaking, entering ;md theft, was men two years' probation, ' W^T'',u ai(l that Ki "S might have JhTr, h °l CC h.v the idea that tho others were heroes. They were not; M type" 0 ' ancl crin,in ' lls of a