“HABITUAL” WHO HAS INDEPENDENT INCOME
Rarity Revealed at Auckland Court
INCOME STOPS WHILE HE’S IN GAOL
[Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Feb. 6.
A rarity, ,ln the person of an habitual criminal with an independent income of £7 a week, was disclosed it the Supreme ourt to-day, when William James Courtney was found guilty of the theft of a gold watch and some other articles of a total value of £l3. It was stated income was derived from his father’s estate, and the trustees-were empowered, at their discretion, to stop his income if and so long as he was in gart. After the jury had returned its verdict, Mr. Justice Stringer said the jury would be interested to learn prisoner had a number of convictions and had been declared an habitual criminal. It was extraordinary that any-., one in that class should be receiving an income of £7 a week. He had committed the offence while out on license, and through his conviction would revert automatically to his Old status. Prisoner was remanded until Monday for sentence. Joseph Roy O’Shea, for assault and robbery, was sentenced to months’ Imprisonment.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3264, 6 February 1926, Page 9
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