REMARKABLE PRISONER
SENTENCED T'O FIVE YEARS. (By Telegraph— Press Association). AUCKLAND, Sept. 2. Your record as a prisoner is one of the most • remarkable that lias ever came before me' said Mr Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court when Robert Slade appeared , for' sentence, having pleaded guilty to charges of breaking entering and theift, being unlawfully on premises at night and having house breaking implements in his possession. Council for Slade said the prisoner was 67 years of age, thirty of wliidi" had .been spent in gaol. He had come from Australia and found it so difficult to obtain lawful employment that he reverted to crime. The Judge said lie wanted his criminal record in Melbourne in 1890. He was a much travelled criminal, a kind of cosmopolitan burglar. He had operated in Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth Brisbane, St. Helena, Durban and then came to New Zealand. Accused was sentenced to five years hard labour. '
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1929, Page 5
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