LONG PRISON SENTENCE
JUDGE'S ADVICE TO PRISONER. P.A. WELLINGTON, May 17. Throe years’ hard labour, to be followed by four years’ reformative detention, was imposed by . the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Mvers) at the Supreme Court, on Alfred Taylor. 29, wharf labourer, on two charges of breaking, entering and theft involving the use of explosives, to which he had pleaded guilty. On each of 59 other charges he was sentenced to one year’s hard labour, concurrent with the main sentence. The Judge said that the prisoner seemed to have been uncontrollable in Australia as a child, and if he continued his present course he would be uncontrollable in New Zealand. Over a period of five months he was guilty of 61 offences. If he had any common sense, he would make up his mind during his imprisonment to live a decent life. If he came before the Court again he would in all probability be declared habitual.
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Grey River Argus, 18 May 1944, Page 3
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157LONG PRISON SENTENCE Grey River Argus, 18 May 1944, Page 3
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