Retribution After Six Years
ESCAPEE GETS TWO YEARS . (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Last Night. Herbert Lawrence Hand ley, aged 41, wao was deported last year from Vancouver on account of his association with offences in New Zealand nearly six years ago, was sentenced to-day tor those olfences. lie pleaded guilty to charges ot stealing a car and obtaining money by falsely representing himself as the owner of a business. Counsel said that the prisoner, after his e.'eape from a train while travelling m custody from Wellington to Auckland, got away on a steamer and eventually readied Vancouver, His wife ami family joined him there. He got into trouble through the sale of liquor and served six months' imprisonment, after which he was deported. Mr. Justice Pair refused to grant probation, saying that the offences were calculated ami deliberate. Escaping from custody was also a serious matter. The prisoner was sentenced to twoyears ’ imprisonment.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 September 1935, Page 3
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