AN HABITUAL CRIMINAL.
INDETERMINATE SENTENCE APPLIED,
THE FIRST VICTIM
Per Press Association
Wellington, November 23. The Habitual Criminals and Offenders Act of last session was pub into operation to-day for the first time, when Wm. Sparrow, alias Simnionds, came up for sentence. He had been convicted on the previous day of being found by night and witnout lawful excuse in a house from which he had stolen 5/. This man has 21 convictions recorded against him in 27 years. He hail spent 25 years in gaol. Tha Chief Justice, after listening] 0 a long speech from the prisoner sentenced him to two years' imprisonment and declared him to be 4 Habitual criminal. ,J
This means that the prisoner will not be released at the end of two years, but will lie .consigned to a Reformatory prison.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81893, 24 November 1906, Page 2
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136AN HABITUAL CRIMINAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81893, 24 November 1906, Page 2
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