"LIVING BY CRIME."
CAREER OF TWO MEN.
THREE YEARS' DETENTION
[BT TELEGRAPH. —rRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHTTIH'H, Friday.
"I cannot overlook the fact that you Kent to a blacksmith and had an implement manufactured that would help you to break into premises. It is clear that you had decided you would live by crime once you started, and not a week passed without some shop being broken, into and the proceeds/of the theft realised." In these terms Mr. Justice Kennedy addressed /Donald Hector Macintosh Smart and Percival Dennys Mahoney when they appeared for sentence on 14 charges of breaking and entering. On each charge Smart was sentenced to three years' detention in a Borstal intitution, the terms to be concurrent, and Mahoney was ordered to be detained lor reformative purposes for three years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 12
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