ARSON AND THEFT
FRANKTON OFFENCES YOUTH OF 18 SENTENCED (By Telegraph.—Pi ess .\:soeia;:on> AUCKLAND, Thursday Eric Raymond Hakaraia Clark, aged 18, was sentenced by Mr Justice Fair in the Supreme Court to one month’s imprisonment on each of two charges of theft, the sentences to be concurrent, and twelve months’ reformative detention on each of six charges of arson, these sentences also to be concurrent. The thefts were committed in Wellington and Frankton, where Clark was employed by the Railway Department, and all the crimes of arson were committed about the railway station at Frankton. Prosecuting for the Crown, Mr N. I. Smith said damage to the extent of £2OO had been caused. One case was particularly serious. Clark had set fire to a washhouse attached to a house where a mother and her baby were sleeping. The boy had been under medical observation and was reported to be ot good intelligence, though not as Well developed mentally as he should be for his age.
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Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21601, 11 December 1941, Page 6
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