HABITUAL CRIMINALS
SENTENCED TO HARD LABOUR
(By Telegraph.—Press, Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Two of five prisoners' Who were sentenced by tho Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) today were declared habitual criminals. Harris O'Neill admitted eighteen charges of burglary and theft at Auckland and nine at Wellington, and one of false pretences at Hamilton. Counsel said that the prisoner was a pharmaceutist who had lived an honest life until 1926. His Honour said that such an orgy of crime must be severely punished, and he inflicted a sentence of five years' hard labour. Samuel George Wallace, a middleaged man, for indecent assault and a graver offence, was sentenced to five years' hard labour. Ho had been sentenced to four years' imprisonment in ID2B for a similar offence. His Honour said that perhaps tho offences were the result of a diseased mind, but the community must bo protected.
Sarah, one of the world's oldest cats, has died aged 23 in the Dumb Friends' League Home, at Bournemouth. A woman paid 3s a week for her keep for 20 years. ,The Q.at acted as foster-mother t» hundreds
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 130, 5 June 1933, Page 11
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184HABITUAL CRIMINALS Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 130, 5 June 1933, Page 11
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