Habitual Criminal.
THE NEW ACT. PRESS ASSOCIATION Wellington, last night. The Habitual Criminals and Offenders Act of last session was put into operation to-day for the first time, when William Jenldnson Sparrow, alias Simmons, came up for sentence- He had been convicted on the previous day of being found by I night, and without lawful excuse, in a houso from which ho had stolon ss. This man has 21 convictions recorded against him in 27 years. He has spent 25 years in gaol. The Chief Justice after listening to a long speech from prisoner sentenced him to two years’ imprisonment, and declared him to be a habitual criminal. This means Sparrow will not be released at the end of fwo years, but will be consigned to a reformatory prison.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1941, 24 November 1906, Page 2
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