A BAD CRIMINAL HISTORY

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 32, 1 November 1928, Page 8

A BAD CRIMINAL HISTORY

DEALER IMPRISONED. Frederick Charles Richmond, a dealer, aged 27, pleaded guilty before Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday to the theft of six bicycles valued in all at £4O 10s. Chief Detective Ward stated that the thefts had been committed between August 3 and September 24 of this year by the accused, who was “a man with a bad criminal history.” Accused, who had been living at Upper Hutt, had stolen the bicycles from various places where working men had left them. Richmond would take the machines home and paint them a different colour, also changing the parts. He would then dispose of them. When arrested he was trying to get rid of the sixth bicycle. In 1925 Richmond had been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for breaking and entering, and was only discharged from prison in January of this year, being placed on a probationary license until May. Accused had done very little work whjle at Upper Hutt, and had practically lived on his wife, who was a decent, hard-working woman. Accused, who had a number of previous convictions, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour on each of the first two charges, the sentences to be’cumulative. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months on each o’ the four other charges. -