CHRISTCHURCH SUPREME COURT
A GAOL-BKEAKER SENTENCED. liy Telegraph—Press Association, Christchurch, November 3. Tn the Supreme Court Mario Hill and Daniel Murray, alias Jackson, cliargcd with tins theft of .£3O 10s. from the proprietress of (In; Trocadero Hotel, were fonii'.t guilty. Hill was sentenced to six. month.-i' imprisonment, and Murray to two years' imprisonment and to be treated as an habitual criminal. An order was made for the restitution of iCJfI recovered from the prisoners. Albeit Dbkson AVnrde-n, on two charts of theft from dwellings. Was found guilty. The prisoner, who is tin escapee from .Mount. Eden Gaol, presented a revolver at Constable Williams, who arrested him at Sydenham on October 13. Ills Honour, after detailing the prisoner's record, addressed him as follows: "You seem to be an incorrigible rogue and a menace to tho public. I shall sentenco you to five years' imprisonment on each charge, the tvntences to be concurrent, and I slmll declare you to be an habitual criminhl." Frederick David Jones was found guilty on two charges of receiving stolen Roods, sentence being deferred.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 34, 4 November 1919, Page 7
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177CHRISTCHURCH SUPREME COURT Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 34, 4 November 1919, Page 7
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