IMPRISONMENT FOR THEFT
# BRICKLAYER BROUGHT FROM AUSTRALIA CrSESS ASSOCIATION TZL2GEAK.) • , WELLINGTON. July • “In all my experience I have ne*-f seen a more formidable list than of the accused. He has served abo®* ' half his life-time in prison in Australia and has been declared an habito**-, criminal,” said Senior-Detective fW" ■ in the Magistrate’s Court in . William Crofts, a bricklayer, agedi» who pleaded not guilty to the tne» of a radio set He was found guU£ and sentenced to six months nnP . onment with hard labour. -gj r Counsel said that Crofts had : been convicted since 1932. He : bricklayer, and was brought to ; Zealand ijy the Government 18 J ag The Magistrate: It seems the ; ernment was not very c^efUL , should have looked into his Ideate, - —“
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23085, 30 July 1940, Page 12
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