A BURGLAR’S KIT
POSSESSOR SENTENCED. By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, May 2. The discovery in his possession of a large assortment of weapons and housebreaking implements resulted in George Albert Edwards being sentenced in the Supreme Court to a term of two years’ reformative detention in addition to the maximum penalty of 12 months’ imprisonment with hard labour. Mr Justice Reed commented severely on the nature of the weapons, and spoke of an example being made to o.her similar offenders. The articles were a bottle of ammonia, a water pistol, an automatic pistol with one round of ammunition, a jemmy, two pairs of rubber gloves, eight detonators, four pieces of fuse, two and a half sticks of gelignite, and a piece of rubber hose with lead at one end. It was stated that the water pistol had at some time contained ammonia. Tests had been made with it, and it had been found to have a range of 30 feet. Edwards pleaded that the weapons were not his own, but had been given to him by another person.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19789, 3 May 1934, Page 5
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177A BURGLAR’S KIT Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19789, 3 May 1934, Page 5
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