WAVE OF CRIME.
JUDGE PERPLEXED. By Telegraph —Press Association. AUCKLAND, Wednesday. “It is difficult to know what to clo with these bodies of young men con^ n = here for breaking, entering ana tiielt, said Mr Justice Herdman, when ten young men, of ages ranging from i years to 26 years, came before him lor sentence on dishonesty charges. -fins procession is a lamentable business, His Honour continued. ‘ The 1 olico and Justice Departments cannot eliec -- it by punishments. There is no clouds that the fault lies in the home training. The boys do not seem to be brought up as they.were a few years ago.' Jack Norman Alfred O Moara, aged 26, with a bad theft record, received two years’ hard labour for breaking and entering. The other cases were mostly dealt with as probationary.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 12 July 1923, Page 6
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