BICYCLE THIEF
NO CASE FOR LENIENCY
1 (Special to the "Evening Post.") ' • PALMERSTON N., This Day. Pleading guilty to the .theft of six bicycles, an engine driver named Albert Leonard Hansen, aged 37, was sentenced by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, to six months' gaol (one month' on each charge), the terms to be cumulative. Detective-Sergeant -J. Bickerdlke said that the bicycles, were all stolen ■in Palmerston North and,, sold, to second-hand dealers in -Palmerston North. Dannevirke, and Feilding under fictitious names. .Hansen had been before the Court on July 18 when he had pleaded guilty to the theft of three bicycles, for %vhich he had been sentenced to six months' gaol and was at present ■serving-'that:term. Mr. Stout remarked that Hansen could expect no leniency and the new term of imprisonment would, be, served at the expiration of the six months he was now serving.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 31, 5 August 1936, Page 5
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