LAW REPORTS.
AN HABITUAL CRIMINAL SUMMED W AS "A 1001,." For a series ol eases of breaking, entering,. and theft, Joseph Cterte Talke was sentenced lay the Chief. Justice at the Supreme Court cen Saturday. Talke, who is only tueiny lour years of age, was sent to liurnhaiii whixn- fie Was ttii, and sinco then litis escaps-d eight i iraes. The police regard hifij as a desperate and clever crin-ii.nsl, awl they Sity thatwhen lie was arrested ai. Napier 1.0 was found to ljo tit jjosgessiow of a revolver and an . electric twroiir Tile charges against' Taffe nteni-Wwl nine* teen.'and the rfftin! '.as were c&rfimitted in l'almcrston Norm, .ainstorton, Bastings, and Napier. Ilis Honour, ill, sentencing the .prisoner,' observed, that it Was evident that the young man had entered upon a earcor of crime, and informed him that adheretic? to suoli, a path wo-iikl mean continued gaol. His llininiir eliari(G< tensed the prisoner as a. fofil, h>k( decided to "put him tender discipline." He sentenced Tit-Ike to jiinpteoii Wo:iit.ivs imprisonment, imd dec lure.) him \ an habitual criminal.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2188, 29 June 1914, Page 9
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177LAW REPORTS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2188, 29 June 1914, Page 9
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