ARMED HOLD-UP.
BENTENCE OF SEVEN YEARS. CRIMINAL’S PLEA FOR LENIENCY. (From a Correspondent,) ’ SYDNEY, July 20. At the Quarter .Sessions to-day Frederick Jackson, 23, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for an armed robbery. Judge’ Curlewis told the prisoner that lie would have made the term ten years had not his two associates in the robbery been sentenced each to five years some weeks ago in connection with the robbe/y. The prisoner was described by the police as a gunman and an associate of gunmen, and that lie had robbed £l4O from a shop at Alexandria, being assisted by the two other men. Jackson, in a plea for clemency, said that he was married to a respectable girl who had promised to wait for him on condition that he went straight in future. He added: “I gave her that promise and intend to keep it. Think of this young girl having to face years of hardship and suffering just because I was a fool.” ■•■':/••
# The Judge: You have a bad record. I intend-to put down this carrying of revolvers by criminals; ' '
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19012, 1 August 1933, Page 3
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181ARMED HOLD-UP. Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19012, 1 August 1933, Page 3
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