CRIMINALS SENTENCED
DUNEDIN ASSAULT CASE. — ’ EXTENSIVE THEFTS PROVED. ( Per Press Association. | DUNEDIN, June JB. I At the Supreme Court. Thomas Wil(liam Wilson and Rupert Saunders were I sentenced this morning by Mr Justice I Kennedy. I The former was sentenced on charges "f breaking, entering and theft from the Hudson Fur Company of £500; K. S. Black £450; Dawson and Co., jewel lers. £3000; W. J. Paterson, jewellery. £841: assaulting Walter Rossiter and doing grievous bodily harm to Jane Ros siter, five years’ gaol in all, with on, year’s reformative detention thereafter Saunders received a sentence of three years’ reformative detention for as saulting Rossiter with intent to rob. the Judge remarking that following drunken bouts he fell in with Wilson’s suggestions and his crime was not at tended with brutality. The Judge, af ter reviewing Wilson’s Australian con victions, said that he regarded him a? a callous, brutal and dangerous criminal. Within six months he had stolen goods ' allied af £4791. and £3BOO of jewellcrv was still un recovered. the proceeds of which most likely he hoped to enjoy when released. The cruel and brutal assault on the old man and his wife merited an exemplary punishment.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 6
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