SENT TO GAOL.
YOUNG MEN COMMIT THEFT.
Pf.r Press Association*. AUCKLAND, September 30. At the Police Court Joseph Bedford, aged twenty-three, Robert Kearney
aged twenty-three, and Horace Smith aged twenty-four, were charged that they did rob Samuel Clifford Priestley
of 265, and immediately before such lobbery did use violence to Priestley. They were alternately charged with Laving stolen £1 from Priestley. The latter was a masseur from whom Bedford received treatment, and to Tihom be introduced the other defendants, it apparently being agreed that if Priestley would not give them money they would take it from him.
The charge was reduced to one of common theft. Kearney was sentenced to six month’s imprisonment and Bedford and Smith to six rrlcntlis* each, followed by twelve mouths reformative treatment.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17347, 30 September 1924, Page 7
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