PROBATION REFUSED.
CASE AT AUCKLAND. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Jan. 20. Pleading guilty to a charge of stealing a case of gin valued at £5, the property of the Gisborne Sheep Farmers’ Frozen Meat and Mercantile Coy., Ltd., Leslie Robert Sneddon, a non-unionist waterside worker, aged 26, was to-day sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. The police said that Sneddon, while working cargo, was seen to put a case of gin under a basket. Later lie was intoxicated.
Disregarding counsel’s plea, the Magistrate sa'id: “How can I give him probation when ho has been in gaol three times before?”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 45, 21 January 1938, Page 9
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98PROBATION REFUSED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 45, 21 January 1938, Page 9
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