GOT HIS DESERTS
LEGAL “SHARK” GAOLED. “MENACE TO SOCIETY.” The greatest menace in Sydney for many years, .received his deserts last week when Harry Fane Becher (36), a lawyer’s clerk, was sentenced to two years’ hard labor for conSP Becher, during his career .in Sydney, has been associated with nine 'solicitors, and each one, in an effort to repair the harm, that Becher has done, has been ruined. One vas struck off the rolls in circumstances that, in view of' Becher s enc b. suggests that a wrong was done himIn addition to tho trouble that he has caused in‘this direction, the character 'that was given Becher utter his conviction by Detective Ser geant-Lawrence is illuminating. He has taken down thousands of persons in this city. for. sums that m the aggregate, • it is impossible to. esti mate ” said Mr Lawrence Becher;made a boast that he had stood 37 criminal trials, and that lie fi ' U^This P lV no -case for .leniency,” •m Mr j o «" idso kou p “rs 'itS.high time that you paid the penalty.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11382, 6 December 1930, Page 6
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