MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 28 July 1937, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

YOUNG MEN CHARGED. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 28. “An armed hold-up is a very serious offence and renders accused liable to life imprisonment,” said DetectiveSergeant Doyle in opposing in the Magistrate’s Court an application for bail in the case of three young men jointly charged with being armed with a pistol and attempting to rob one. Fong Lee, at Dunedin on July 3. Accused were: Basil Ernest David Johnson-Barrett, aged 22, a seaman ; Maurice Bush, aged 21, a storeman; Arthur Frederick Langford, aged 19, a salesman. Barrett was also charged with breaking and entering 'the shop of Frank Boffa on July 16 and stealing £2 in money. Langford was charged jointly with another young man. whose name was suppressed pending trial, with the theft of £G knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained. A fifth young man, whose name was also suppressed pending trial, was charged with breaking and entering Mr Boffa’s 'shop three days before Barrett was alleged to have entered and with stealing £7 12s 6d. All were .remanded, to August 4. A young woman, whose name was also suppressed and whose case was taken first, pleaded cruilfv to a charge of being idle and disorderly and was admitted to twelve months’ probation on condition that she did not visit Dunedin and did not associate anywhere with her former associates. She was warned that she would otherwise find herself in prison. Bail was refused to both Barrett and Langford.