"SHOULD BE SHOT"

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 77, 10 March 1931, Page 5

"SHOULD BE SHOT "

MR. MOWLEM ADDRESSES PRISONER SPEAKING AS A FATHER THEFT OF SUIT CASE Press Association. —Copyright. . NAPIER, This Day. "Speaking as a father and not as a magistrate, I want to tell you that I consider this type of crime so despicable that had I discovered it I should have liked to have had the power to have ordered the perpetrator to be sbot, and I would have been up at dawn to see the sentence carried out," said Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., addressing Cyril Dixon, of Christchurch, on a charge of stealing a suitcase and clothes. A month's imprisonment was ordered, also an extension of probation until accused reaches 21 years of age.