DOMINION NEWS
SUPREME COURT SENTENCES. CHRISTCHURCH, November 23. > Sentences amounting to two years imprisonment with hard labour were imposed on William Franey Keenan, traveller and painter, aged 41, when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court to-day for sentence on six charges oi having obtained money and goods by; false pretences. Senior-Dectective H. Nuttall said that in the last 21 years the accused had no fewer than 74 convictions, 69 for false pretences. He practically lived on the proceeds of false pretences.' and seemed to be a professional at it. He had only recently been discharged from prison. “It appears to this Court,” said the Magistrate (Mr. E. C. Levve'y, S'.M.), to the accused, “that y;ou are one of these persons who live by preying on the unwary and on people at large. You are a menace, and I only regret strongly regret—that I have not the power to stop you by; sentencing you indeterminately. 1 cannot do that, but I will sentence you to an aggregation of two years’ imprisonment. That will keep 1 you in prison for as long as I can do it.” Keenan was sentenced to six months imprisonment on each of four charges (sentences to be cumulative), and was- convicted and discharged on the other two.
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Grey River Argus, 25 November 1944, Page 2
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