PRISON ESCAPEE
A FURTHER SENTENCE. AUCKLAND, December 20. Colin William Glass, 21. .who escaped from Mt. Eden Gaol on December 11, and was recaptured a week later, was sentenced to-day to six months’ imprisonment, additional to his original five years’ sentence. He was charged before Magistrate Hunt with escaping, with stealing clothes from a house, and with unlawfully converting a motor car. lii reply to the Magistrate, prisoner said he had only committed the other offences to aid him in escaping. Mr Hunt said that if prisoner had chosen to go to the Supreme Court on those charges, he would probably have been declared an habitual criminal. He did not intend to punish the prisoner for the other offences except to convict him, but for escaping, he would be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1934, Page 7
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134PRISON ESCAPEE Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1934, Page 7
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