“STEALING TO LIVE”
THIEF'S FRANK CONFESSION OBJECTION TO DECLARATION (By Telegraph.—Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday “The placement officer in Auckland got me a .job but I was drummed out of it because I was an habitual criminal and so had lo steal to live." This was the protest of Archibald Andrew Charles Scott in the Police Court this morning when he was committed for sentence on a charge of breaking, entering and theft at Tokirima and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment on another charge and convicted without penalty of other charges of theft, principally of food and clothing. According to the police prisoner was discharged from Mt. Eden Gaol on December 19 where he served a long sentence after being declared an habitual criminal. He worked his way to Taranaki where he committed a series of offences, stealing food, clothing and sundry small articles. “I am an honest man but when I was declared an habitual criminal for some petty offences that stopped me getting a .job.'' said the prisoner. * - l have had* to thieve to live. Until they scrap the Act about habitual criminals I will be better in Mt. Eden.'’
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20732, 16 February 1939, Page 10
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192“STEALING TO LIVE” Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20732, 16 February 1939, Page 10
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