HABITUAL CRIMINALS
THREE DECLARATIONS [Prk United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, February 19. Of five prisoners who camo before Mr Justice Oallau for sentence, three were declared by him to be habitual criminals in view of their previous records of convictions. A salesman, aged 26 Clement Robert Lawson, and a labourer, aged 41, George Frederick Murphv, who had been caught breaking into a store at Pokeno, stood jointly charged with breaking and entering by night with intent to commit a crime, and with having in their possession instruments of housebreaking, there was a further charge against Murphy alone of having in his possession an explosive substance for the purpose of committing a crime. . , . Mr Sullivan, appearing for both men, said that friends of Lawson outside the Dominion had undertaken to give him work here. . His Honour said that that raised a question that had been discussed before “I do not think New Zealand courts should facilitate the transshipment and unloading on to other courts of our misfits,” he continued. We produced them.” Each would be sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment with hard labour, and declared an habitual criminal. ,
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Evening Star, Issue 22578, 20 February 1937, Page 21
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186HABITUAL CRIMINALS Evening Star, Issue 22578, 20 February 1937, Page 21
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