YOUTHFUL BURGLARS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 1

YOUTHFUL BURGLARS

GANG AT NEW PLYMOUTH Press Association NEW PLYMOUTH, Today. The young men concerned in the recent epidemic of burglaries in Taranaki were sentenced by Mr. Justice MacGregor this morning as follows: Raymond Jack Vernon Elliott, for breaking, entering and theft and allied charges, three years’ detention in the Borstal Institute; Leonard Edward Smith, on similar charges, five years’ hard labour and declared an habitual criminal: William P. L. Night, for the theft of postal packets and attempted breaking and entering, two years’ detention in a Borstal Institute.

Sydney William Stroud, for breaking, entering and theft of postal packets and receiving, five years’ hard labour and declared an habitual ' criminal: James Earl Smith, for breaking and entering and theft, and breaking and entering with intent, two years’ detention in a Borstal Institute; George Keenan, for breaking, entering and theft, and breaking and entering with intent, two years’ detention in the Borstal Institute; Patrick Francis Keenan, for breaking, entering and theft, 12 months’ reformative detention.

Arthur Rudings, for breaking, entering and theft, and Melville Sullivan, for breaking, entering and theft, were ordered to come up for sentence if called on within three years, and to pay £0 each toward the cost of the prosecution. Sidney John Oakley, for breaking, entering and theft, was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention; John James, for breaking, entering and theft, two years’ detention in a Borstal Institute; Laurence James Sales, for indecent assault on males, five years’ hard labour.