“VERY DISQUIETING”
PREVALENCE OF STEALING. COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, August 16. When a young man came before the Police Court to-day and pleaded guilty to theft while on probation the Magistrate, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, said that the number of such cases was very disquieting. v “The criminal statistics show that the only class of crime that is increasing is that of theft, also that this increase occurs among the rising generation more than among men of mature years: this is a very grave state of affairs,” said Mr. Wilson.
He sentenced the prisoner, James De Grey, to two years in a Borstal institution.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1935, Page 7
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