ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.
ATTACK ON BANK MANAGER. TWO MEN SENT TO PRISON. [by telegraph.—rnEss association.] INVERCARGILL, Fridny. Two men, Maurice Patrick Duffy and William Leonard Brewer, were sentenced by Mr. Justice Kennedy in the Supremo Court to-day to SJ, years' imprisonment with hard labour for breaking and entering the dwelling of the bank manager, Mr. Robert Archibald, at Edendale. His Honor said the men had entered the house masked. They had a loaded rifle and a sandbag, and both the manager and his wife wore attacked. Duffy had been pursuing a criminal course for some time and the attack was a very violent one. Brewer carried the loaded rifle, with which he threatened tho manager and his wife and attempted to gag Mrs. Archibald. His Honor said the past record of the men showed that this crime did not stand alone.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 11
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