SERIES OF CHARGES.
PRISONER SENTENCED. Per Press Association. AVELLINGTON, July 17. Pleading guilty to five charges of stealing overcoats and one charge of receiving a stolen overcoat, AVilliam Norman Paine, aged 23, was to-day sentenced by Air E. D. Alosley, S.M., to four months’ imprisonment. It- was stated that one of the thefts was committed on the same day as accused was bailed out on a charge of drunkenness and resisting the police, for which he served a month’s imprisonment.
11l mitigation, it was urged that accused had an unblemished record till these offences were committed. He was a young man who had done well till he* was thrown out of work owing to the firm he had served changing hands. Drink and bad associations on his return to AVellington were stated to be the cause of his trouble. The probation officer, however, said accused seemed to snap his fingers at the Court. He could not recommend probation,- but if accused were under 23 he would suggest Borstal treatment.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 195, 17 July 1935, Page 8
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169SERIES OF CHARGES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 195, 17 July 1935, Page 8
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