"DOES NOT PAY"
CAREER OF BURGLARY
A YOUTHFUL CRIMINAL
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)*
CHEISTCHTJRCH, This Day.
'■'The least payable of any occupation is burglary," said Mr. Justice Blair in sentencing James Patrick Gleeson, aged 19, to Borstal detention for three years for shop-breaking and theft. "There is no way by which you can make burglary pay, that is, putting it on a law ground," he added; "there are moral grounds as well. I intend giving a sentence to see if you cannot get the criminal microbe out of your system." • ■ ,
Gleeson had previous convictions, and his Honour remarked that he had really ' qualified to be declared a habitual criminal, though he was- only nineteen years of age.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1933, Page 8
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