A BRIGHT PAIR.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13337, 28 March 1911, Page 7

A BRIGHT PAIR.

(Per United Press Association ) DUNEDIN. March 28. A young man named Joseph Thomas Christie and a lad named Robert Inwin Meaclem were brought before the Supreme Court for sentence this morning on charges of breaking into and stealing from a settler’s residence. The Crown Prosecutor said Meaclem was convicted of theft at Christchurch in June, and committed to the Burnham School, from which he absconded. Christie, in 1908, was whipped at Masterton for stealing, and later was convicted. and ordered to come up for sentence for theft, and in 1909 was convicted and sent to Burnham. He absconded and was re-arrested at Kaiapoi, and once more absconded. He was next convicted of theft and forgery at Napier, and sent to Invercargill prison for four years, where his conduct was exemplary, and he was sent back to Burnham, but absconded. The ijudge said that Meaclem would be sent back to Burnham, and Christie would be sent to tne Invercargill prison lir reformative purposes, to be there detained 'for a period not exceeding five years.