SOLDIER BANDITS
LONG TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT VIOLENCE OF A YOUTH NARROWLY ESCAPED FLOGGING United Press Asm.—Elec. Tel. Cjpyrlgf. (Received April 2, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, April 1 The soldier bandits were sentenced. Andrew Vanderburg to 10 years’ imprisonment and Reginald Kaye to three years. The Judge, in passing sentence, said that although Kaye was under 17 years of age lew boys could have packed more violence into 24 hours. He could count himself lucky that he was not flogged as well as imprisoned. Clark, a van boy, who was charged with demanding money with menaces, was found not guilty and was discharged. On March 2 it was stated that after a search for two men, who, dressed in military uniforms, held up a patrol car at the revolver point and forced two constables to alight, after which they escaped in the car, the police arrested two soldiers, Andrew Vanderburg and Reginald Kaye, of the Twelfth Lancers, stationed at Tidworth. The men were arrested after a struggle in which two policemen were injured.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20464, 2 April 1938, Page 7
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171SOLDIER BANDITS Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20464, 2 April 1938, Page 7
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