HABITUAL CRIMINALS
TO TUB BDITOB OF THE FRSS3. Sir, —Can you or any of your readers tell me what advantage accrues, or is supposed to accrue, lo the community by .the declaring of a person as a habitual criminal? Last Saturday week Mr Justice Ostler said in Wellington that though he did not like to declare a man a habitual criminal, and always hesitated to do so, it seemed to him that he would be failing in his duty to the public if he failed to declare a certain man as such. However, he did refrain, and the prisoner, who had appealed most urgently for "one more chance," received the sentence of reformative detention "not exceeding four years." I imagine, that far a while, the community may now congratulate itself upon having been made safe from any further unwelcome attentions on the part of this particular individual. But supposing that his Honour had determined not to risk "failing in his would the community have been bettered, or protected?— Yours, etc CURIOSUS. November 5, 1934.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21314, 6 November 1934, Page 8
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