GAOL FOR SHOPLIFTING
Sentences totalling nine months' imprisonment were imposed upon James Audley Register, a labourer, aged 60, who appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the. Magistrate's Court today, and pleaded guilty to two charges' 61 shoplifting. Sub-Inspector D. J. O'Neill, after outlining the circumstances of the case, said that Register had a formidable list of previous convictions.
t Register said he had been drinking. Most of the time, he said, he worked in the country.
The Magistrate: I should say tbjat most of your time you worked in gaol.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 9, 10 July 1940, Page 8
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92GAOL FOR SHOPLIFTING Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 9, 10 July 1940, Page 8
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