PRISONERS SENTENCED.
CHRISTCHURCH BUPREME COURT. DESTITUTION CAUSES CRIME. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. In the Supreme Court, prisoners were sentenced by the Justice. Harold Henry Williams, for breaking, entering and theft, three charges, eighteen months’ hard labour; Arthur Reginald Borland, aged 36, forgery, three years’ probation; Frederick Burger Clark, housebreaking and theft, 18 months’ reformative detention. George Alfred Hayward an'd Edward Victor Pope, for breaking, entering and theft, were admitted to two years’ probation. The judge -said that these men, being unemployed, seemed to have been driven to crime by destitution. Both were of excellent character. A SERIOUS OFFENCE. Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Friday. Henry Samuel Clegg, aged 31, for indecently assaulting a girl aged seven, was sentenced to two years . reformative detention.
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18165, 1 November 1930, Page 4
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