CRIME IN CITIES.
It is quite irnpossiple for any body of police to watch every suspscted footpad and every foolish man who is placing himself in the footpad's power. But if tha law dealt with adequate severity with every city loafer who is not able to show that he earns an honest living, and it magistrates were not so disposed to give "another chance" to the worst type of criminal that infests our cities, there would be comparatively little heard of this class of crime, remarks the Auckland "Herald." The indeterminate sentence has already had a marked'effect in keeping professional criminals of a bolder type out of the Dominion, and it should not be more difficult to make New Zealand an uncomfortable country for the meaner but quite as undesirable offendsr.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3093, 16 January 1909, Page 4
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131CRIME IN CITIES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3093, 16 January 1909, Page 4
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