CRIME LURE
CRIMINALS WHO RETURN TO HAUNT THE COURT What is the psychological reason for released criminals haunting the public galleries of the criminal courts? asks a Sydney writer. The lure could be easily understood wero it a pal who is fighting for his freedom. But in police courts and at Quarter Sessions, day after day, crook's who can have no personal interest in the case may be seen listen ingintently to the proceedings. Is it with the idea of picking up hints when their own turn comes again? Equally intriguing is the spectaele, in the Banco Court, whenever the , Full Court is exercising its disciplinary or punitive powers on an erring solicitor, or numbers of solicitors whose names have been removed from the rolls occupying seats in the court gallery. It may be that every ex-solicitor nurses in his hreast the prospect of i one day being restored to the ranks of the profession, and he may wish to judge whether the ehanges in the personnel of the court give him any .
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 97, 15 December 1931, Page 7
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