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Corpun file 23533 at www.corpun.com The Advertiser, Adelaide, 6 September 1939, p.16Criminal SittingsYoung Housebreaker Birched
The cases of five men and a youth were before the Chief Justice (Sir George Murray), in the Supreme Court. yesterday, in continuation of the Criminal Sittings begun on Monday. After the youth, who had admitted charges of suburban housebreaking, had been birched by his father at the suggestion of his Honor, he was released under the Offenders Probation Act. Chief Justice's OpinionsArthur Ernest Willmott, 17, apprentice, of Cross road,
Clarence Park, who admitted three charges of housebreaking, was
released under a bond of £10 with a surety of £10, to be of
good behaviour for 12 months, after he had been chastised by his
father. After Mr. D. Menzies (for the youth) had said that there was
no suitable place of detention for youths like Willmott, who had
not offended before, his Honor said that it would be very much
better if judges had the power to order birchings. It would have
a much better effect in restraining the committing of these
offences than anything else," his Honor added; "the
reformatory is no place." [...] |
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