A Systematic Offender.
At the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Tuesday, Isidore M. Cohen, late of Foxton, who had pleaded guilty to four charges of false pretences and one of forgery at Foxton and Palmerston North during the past three months, banded in a written statement, in which be attributed his dishonest practices to fits of melancholy which induced him to take spirits and drags. To this habit ha put down bis propensity to wrong-doing. , it t His Honor observed that the ex* ouse put forward could not exonerate thaprisooer from repeated offences of this kind. 'As late as last year he had been sentenced to fifteen months’ hard labour on sixteen charges. He should, now undergo eighteen months’ hard labour.
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Manawatu Herald, 25 June 1903, Page 3
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120A Systematic Offender. Manawatu Herald, 25 June 1903, Page 3
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