CRIMINAL’S BAD RECORD.
FURTHER SENTENCES IMPOSED. Auckland, Last Night. In the Supreme Court to-day, }Sx. Justice Frazer sentenced Charles William Wahle to three years’ bard labour, for breaking and entering and theft, and two years’ bard labour for false pretences, the sentences to be concurrent. Prisoner made an appeal for a reduction of the sentence, pleading that since his youth be had never had a fair chance, and offering to make £IOO restitution. The Judge said that prisoner bad a shockingly bad list, apart from further charges Avhich, he said, he had been prepared to admit. The best course was to inform the authorities that the prisoner was an habitual criminal and leave them to decide the proper course after the sentence had been served.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3873, 20 November 1928, Page 2
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125CRIMINAL’S BAD RECORD. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3873, 20 November 1928, Page 2
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