PARENTS HEART-BROKEN AT CRIMES OF YOUTH.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, January 7. Stated to have come from a good family and with parents heart-broken at the course of crime into which he had plunged, Jack Hands, aged nineteen years, was convicted and ordered to come up within three years for sentence for obtaining clothing from Vance Vivian by means of valueless cheques, and to make restitution. It was said that the youth had come under the influence of another young man at Napier and had committed thefts there and at Blenheim, Christchvrch, Timaru and Ashburton. He had been admitted to three years’ probation at Christchurch and was to appear for sentence on the Napier charge next month. Prior to his association with the other man his character had been excellent. The other man had been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19271, 7 January 1931, Page 7
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140PARENTS HEART-BROKEN AT CRIMES OF YOUTH. Star (Christchurch), Issue 19271, 7 January 1931, Page 7
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