WHOLESALE BURGLARY
HARDSHIP NO EXCUSE [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, December 15. “ Hardship is no excuse for a wholesale career in burglary and theft,” said Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court, in sentencing Wallace Mansell Jones to three years’ reformative detention on seventeen charges of breaking and entering and theft. Counsel said Jones was a married man, twenty-seven years of age. He had been unemployed for some months. He was married nineteen months ago, and it was shortly after his marriage that he became unemployed.
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Evening Star, Issue 21286, 15 December 1932, Page 14
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86WHOLESALE BURGLARY Evening Star, Issue 21286, 15 December 1932, Page 14
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