DRIVEN TO CRIME
A YOUNG- MARRIED MAN'S LAPSE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. Wm. Burridge, a young man arrested in connection with recent jewellery burglaries, pleaded guiity to several charges of theft at the Police Court to-day. He made a lengthy statement, in which he alleged that his own ill-health (which prevented him working at his trade, that of a cook) and the ill-health of hie wife, had led him. to commit crime. On one charge he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, on ithe second to one month, and fourteen days on the third, to be concurrent. With W. G. Thomson he was charged with thefts, of jewellery. The case was remanded till Thursday.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 201, 3 December 1910, Page 5
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116DRIVEN TO CRIME Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 201, 3 December 1910, Page 5
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