NUMEROUS CHARGES OF THEFT
TWO YOUNG MEN SENTENCED (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 22. Before passing sentence of two years in a Borstal Institution on Leslie Snow, aged 17 years, and John Noble Stephens, aged 20 years, on numerous charges of theft at Auckland and Hamilton, Mr Justice Callan remarked that the story told by accused was that a mysterious lady was the inspiring force. She was going to Wellington with them and they would then sell the goods. She was said to have come into Snow’s room and tried clothing on, remarking it was a pretty good selection. “Am I to believe (hat?” asked his Honour. Defending counsel: I can only say what they told me and the police. Mr V. R. Meredith, for the Crown, said a constable had approached “the lady,” who was a girl of fourteen. His Honour remarked that numerous offences were distributed over two months and performed with considerable deliberation, and in some instances in a professional manner.
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Southland Times, Issue 23181, 23 April 1937, Page 4
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