BREAKING, ENTERING AND THEFT
YOUNG MEN SENTENCED AT AUCKLAND (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, October 19. Having pleaded guilty to a series of charges of breaking and entering and theft involving cash, jewellery and goods valued at more than £lOOO, Kenneth Hugh Bennetts, aged 21, was sentenced to three years’ reformative detention by his Honour Mr Justice Fair.
Arrainged for sentence with Bennetts were Lee Leonard Colquhoun, aged 25, who was sentenced to 12 months’ reformative detention on one charge of breaking, entering and theft, and Allan Farquhar Young, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking, entering and theft, but who was not represented by counsel and was stood down until next sentence day. The charges related to numerous thefts from dwellings and burglaries in two city jewellers’ shops by Bennetts, who was in one case associated with Colquhoun, and in the other with Young. Counsel for Bennetts stated that over £6OO worth of jewellery had been sold to a man in Wellington, for which Bennetts had received £lO only.
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Southland Times, Issue 23953, 20 October 1939, Page 9
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