PALMERSTON NORTH HOLD-UP
HARD LABOUR FOR FIVE YEARS “NEW ZEALAND SAFER PLACE.* By Telegraph—Press Association. Palmerston N., L ;t Night Charles Joseph Williams was held up on the night of June 1 by a man in his car shed and was robbed of £l4 in notes. In the Supreme Court to-day Leslie Clifford Arthur Payne, aged 32, was found guilty of the offence and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment with hard labour. Mr. Justice Blair remarked that New Zealand would be a much safer place with Payne in gaol.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1934, Page 5
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