NOT FIRST OFFENCE
On Path to be Declared Habitual Criminal "'l'liis is not. your first offence, and as fur ns one can see from your past offences you arc rapidly going the way to be declared an habitual criminal.” Mr. Justice Reed told " illumi Vernon Hammond, when he appeared for sentence in Hie Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday, on a charge ol breaking, entering ami theft from a dwelling house at Blenheim, on April j last. ' His Honour said he did not propose t'> declare him an habitual criminal at present, but would sentence him to 15 months’ imprisonment with luird labour.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 183, 1 May 1936, Page 2
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101NOT FIRST OFFENCE Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 183, 1 May 1936, Page 2
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