NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL
/SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS. Dunedin, Last Night. John Thomas Christie, the notorious criminal and gaol-breaker, who was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for thefts from the Otago Farmers’ Co-op. Association, was sent North this morning handcuffed to two stalwart plain clothes men, eu route to Mount Eden gaoL Many escapes from prison, custody and mental institutions stand to his credit in Australia and New Zealand. He began his career at the age of 15, when he was birched for theft at Masterton. His longest sentence, prior to the present one was ten years’ reformative treatment: Amongst his sensational escapes the best remembered is his leap from the Lyttelton-Wellington ferry, when a boat had to be lowered. Qn another occasion, in the Auckland district he tiived from a moving train into a river.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2657, 10 November 1923, Page 3
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134NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2657, 10 November 1923, Page 3
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