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Remarking that be must be kept remote from the society on which he had preyed. Mr. R. A. Wiles, deputychairman of M’arwickshire Quarter Sessions, passed sentence of three years’ penal servitude and five years’ preventive detention on a man who was stated to have 39 previous convictions. The man, Edwin Booth, aged 66, described as an insurance agent, pleaded not guilty to a charge of being an habitual criminal. He pleaded guilty to three offences of false pretences at Bidford, Clevedon and Aston Cantlow, and asked for four other cases to be taken into consideration.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 45, 17 November 1936, Page 10
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98PEST TO SOCIETY Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 45, 17 November 1936, Page 10
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