BURGLARS SENTENCED
ONE DECLARED HABITUAL
FOUR YEAES' TERM
(I'or Vrusa Association.)
AUCKLAND, this day
Edward Donovan and Kenneth William Edward Bates, for breaking and entering the Rotorua counting house with intent to blow up a .safe with gelignite, came before Mr. Justice Fair in the Supreme Court to-day for sentence.
Donovan also was charged with breaking into a Taupiri store, while Bates was charged with having escaped from custody of the police station cell at Rotorua,
His Honour said that Donovan would be declared an habitual criminal and would be sentenced to four years' imprisonment. There seemed to be some hope for Bates, whose record was much lighter. He was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for breaking and entering, and six months more for escaping from custody.
Waller Alfred Church, aged 20, was sentenced to three years' reformative detention for a serious assault on an elderly woman in the Drury district.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19693, 27 July 1938, Page 7
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