YOUTHFUL BURGLAR.
THREE YEARS IN BORSTAL COMMENT BY A JUDGE. (Per Press Association) OHRISTCHURCn, This ID'ay. The least pavable of any occupation is burglary, said Mr Justice Blair, in sentencing James Patrick Gleeson, aged 19, to detention in a Borstal institution for three years for shopbreaking and theft. "There is no way by which you can make burglary pay. That is putting it on a low ground. There are moral grounds as well. I intend giving a sentence to see if you cannot get the criminal microbe out of your system." Gleeson had previous convictions. %te Judge remarked that he" had reallv qualified to be declared an habitual criminal though only 19 years of ago.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 133, 17 March 1933, Page 4
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