SENTENCES FOR BANDITS
JUDGE’S STERN WARNING The Common Serjeant, Sir Henry Dickens, K.C.. gave a strong warning at the Old Bailey, London, recently that criminals convicted before him of taking part in “smash and grab*' raids would be treated with great severity. “This class of crime,” Sir Henry said, “has got to be put down. It haj» got to such a state that nobody is safe. I tried one case where i ■ the middle of the day a raid was earrieo out by one car, and a second car was used to get in tho way of other traffic , so the raiders could escape.” Sir Henry had before him seven men concerned with raids or stealing and receiving property. Three of them, convicted of breaking and entering, were sent to penal servitude, one for five years, tho others for three. Another man was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment, and two to 12 months’, and one man was bound over. Three of the men, it was stated, were only overpowered after a fierce fight with tho police, in which truncheons were used.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 141, 17 June 1931, Page 11
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