SUPREME COURT.
Per Press Association. ' CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 15. “Hardship is no excuse for a wholesale career in burglary and theft,” said Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court to-day, in sentencing Wallace Mansell Jones to three years’ reformative detention on seventeen charges of breaking and entering and theft. Counsel sa.id that Jones was a married man, 27 years of age. He was married. nineteen months ago, and shortly afterwards he beoame unemployed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1932, Page 3
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72SUPREME COURT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1932, Page 3
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