TWO YEARS’ HARD
FOR HOUSEBREAKING
(Per Press Association—Copyright)
CHRISTCHURCH, December 13
Albert Harris, married, a labourer, Leslie Howard, married, a salesman and blacksmith, were sentenced to two years’ hard labour by Justice Northcroft, to-day, on charges o* housebreaking and theft.
“You took a gamble find I think in both cases you must regard yourselves as having lost, since you were detected,” said the judge! “It is my duty to make the,,odds; on a gamble sufficiently unattractive to deter you
from committing offences again.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1935, Page 6
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