Sixty Convictions
With over 60 convictions, nearly all for dishonesty, between 1919 and 1949, Robert Bruce McKinlay, aged 51, labourer, admitted the theft of a bicycle in the Magistrate’s Court in Dunedin. “It is amazing to me that the Prisons Board should have let him out after eight months with his list,” said Mr J. D. Willis, S.M., in sending McKinlay to gaol for three months’ hard labour. ' The magistrate was referring to McKinlay’s recent release.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 94, 11 September 1950, Page 4
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76Sixty Convictions Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 94, 11 September 1950, Page 4
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