A WAVE OF CRIME.
WANGANUI COURT SESSIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wanganui, May 27. At the Supreme Court Jeffrey Johnson, for the theft of £fio at Marton, was sentenced to sis months' imprisonment. Sir Robert Stout commented on the number of thefts recently, particularly the wave of crime in the Manawatu district. It appeared either that the police had affected a go-slow policy and had not be?n doing their duty or some people regarded thieving as a thing not wrong. He believed the police would do their best to stop this thieving, but no arrests had been made. There were no serious cases in the Manawatu. Ocar Strangeby, already declared an habitual criminal, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for breaking gaol at Wanganui, and two years' imprisonment for theft of jewellery, the sentences to be concurrent, and redeclared an habitual criminal.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 May 1920, Page 6
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141A WAVE OF CRIME. Taranaki Daily News, 28 May 1920, Page 6
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