A HARDENED CRIMINAL.
At the Supreme Court at Invercargill yesterday, J. H. 0. Cristie, convicted of setting fire to a house at Soho Creek, Wakatipu, which had been sold to one Hamilton, but which had formerly been the property of his mother-in-law (Mrs Champion) was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. The Crown Prosecutor stated' that the prisoner had been known to the police for a number of years, In September, 1863, he received sentence in Dunedin of four years' penal servitude for rape, After that he was convicted of horsestealing, receiving eighteen months' at Christchurch. In 1860 three summary I convictions were obtained against him for larceny. At the Supreme Court in Invercargill he received four years' pen'a| servitude for Isrceny [ and two years afterwards, while in custody, he escaped from gao}, and was sentenced to three years' pens.l servitude, Two more summary convicions were obtained 'for larceny in Dunedin in 1880. \ had for the lasttwenty years been little W of gaol, It is supposed that the object of the prisoner was to conceal the removal of' furniture belonging to Mrs Champion by setting the house on fire,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1788, 15 September 1884, Page 2
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189A HARDENED CRIMINAL. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1788, 15 September 1884, Page 2
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