A WAVE OF CRIME
COMMENTS BY CHIEF JUSTICE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wanganui, May 27. In the Supreme Court Jeffrey Johnson, for tho theft of ,£6O at Marton, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. The Chief Justice (Sir Bobert Stout) commented on the number of thefts recently, and particularly on the wavo of crimo in the Manawatu district. It appeared that either the police had affected a "go-slow" policy and were not doing their duty, or that some people regarded thieving as a thing net wrong. He believed the pplico would do their best to stop this thieving. O'sear Stnvngebye, who has been already declared an habitual criminal was sentenced to six months in gaol for breaking gaol at Wanganui, and two years for theft of jewellery; tho sentences to bo concurrent. The prisoner was again declared an habitual criminal.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 208, 28 May 1920, Page 7
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139A WAVE OF CRIME Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 208, 28 May 1920, Page 7
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