A HARDENED CUSTOMER.
RECEIVES A STIFF SENTEKCE. My Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Laßt Wight. In the police court to-day Wm. Kelly, ■who pave his age as 17 years, was convicted on charges of attempting to steal money from two shops and with assaulting a man named Rush. Aecuscd was convicted of stealing a bicycle on November 24 and was ordered to come up for sentence when called on. "It is very seldom I have seen such a cool and hardened customer in dock, and I have never seen one of Uia youth 1 show such callousness and deliberation," said .Air. liartholomew, S..M.,'who sentenced accused to six weeks' imprisonment on each charge of theft from tills, and to three months on the charge on which he had previously been before the court, and he would recommend the Government to deal with him tinder the Industrial Schools Act. Aecuscd was convicted and discharged on the charge of assault. ~.,.. i Uli | »^.aM
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 202, 24 February 1914, Page 5
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158A HARDENED CUSTOMER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 202, 24 February 1914, Page 5
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