PRISONERS SENTENCED
THREE FROM WANGANUI. In the Supreme Court. Wellington, Francis Nicholas Davey, labourer, 19, and Richard Girvan Hogg, labourer, 18, were sentenced to three years’ Borstal detention for unlawful convesion of a motor-car and breaking into a garage and stealing petrol valued at fl 3s 6d. Mr. J. D. Willis said the prisoners took the car at Wanganui, and when they reached Raetihi apparently repented. They wanted petrol to return the car to Wangianui and stole it from a garage. His Honour. Mr. Justice Smith, said the prisoners had previously been sentenced to two years' Borstal detention for the same type of offence. Commenting that it was essential that hospital attendants did not abuse the trust placed in them, His Honour sentenced Albert Thomas Kadwell, nightwatchman. 56, to twelve months’ hard labour for having carnal knowledge of a mental defective at an institution in the National Park, where he wrs an attendant.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 94, 21 April 1944, Page 3
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153PRISONERS SENTENCED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 94, 21 April 1944, Page 3
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