GAOL FOR YOUTHS
NEW PLYMOUTH BURGLARIES (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, last night. Archibald William Parkes, 19, and Oswald Henry Parker, 18, admitted in the Police Court to-day that tliev were* the perpetrators of numerous night and day burglaries from the shops of tobacconists and chemists in New Plymouth. Each was sentenced to six weeks’ gaol, with hard labor, on the summary charges, and committed for sentence for the indictable offences. The youths worked either singly or together, and generally selected holiday periods or quiet parts of the day to carry on their operations. The buildings were mostly entered from back yards. Doors and windows were then forced and broken, or locks removed, Parker had been admitted to probation several times previously. Parkes alsb pleaded guilty to the theft of many cases of benzine from farms and other places in the country, and of a whole cheese from a daily factory. In these offences, ho had as partners Jack McDowell, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. and Thomas John Henry Withers, who was admitted to probation for two years.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16865, 31 January 1929, Page 9
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183GAOL FOR YOUTHS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16865, 31 January 1929, Page 9
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