PICKPOCKET SENTENCED.
TWO MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT
[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
HAMILTON, Friday,
" This is a serious case, but if you had not had previous convictions I would have been disposed to have granted you probation," said Mr. Justice Smith in the Hamilton Supreme Court to-day when sentencing David Alexander Swanson, aged 46, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted theft at Eotorua.
His Honor said prisorter had been caught while attempting to pick a man's pocket on a racecourse. A sentence of two months' imprisonment was imposed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20508, 8 March 1930, Page 14
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