SWEETHEART’S PLEA
YOUTH TEMPTED TO CRIME.
MONEY FOR NEW DRESS.
Auckland, June S.
A girl’s appeal to her sweetheart to supply her with £3 for a new dress was contained in a letter produced on behalf of a boy burglar, Edward Walter Rix, who appeared at the Supreme Court to-day. Rix had been charged at Whakatane with breaking into an office with intent to commit a crime. He admitted the offence. Mr. Noble described it as a classical example of a simple-minded youth who was led astray by his love of a girl. She was 21 and had written to him asking for money to buy a dress. His Honour, after reading the letter in which the girl made her appeal, said he could not accept as an excuse for a crime of this nature the fact that a young woman wrote asking a youth to supply her with £3 to buy a new dress. _ He must earn the money which he desired to give for that or any other purpose. His Honour ordered Rix to be detained in a Borstal Institute for two years.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1931, Page 7
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