AN OLD OFFENDER
TERM OF IMPRISONMENT Charges of breaking into a schoolhouse by night n-nd theft and of stealing timber and tools were admitted by Rynold Pittam, who came before Mr. Justice Fair' for sentence in the Supreme Court yesterday. Prisoner handed to His Honor a statement in which he appealed for another chance on the ground that he was endeavouring to reform, and the offences were due to drink. , Mr. Hubble, for the Crown, said he could only draw attention to the prisoner's list of convictions, which began as far back as 1917. His Honor said it was not a case for probation. Prisoner's record was not good, and the report on his character was not good. He had been apparentlv consorting with thieves and bonds and living an idle and shiftless life'for a considerable time, ine only course was to sentence him to imprisonment, and he would be sentenced to two years' hard labour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22145, 26 June 1935, Page 15
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156AN OLD OFFENDER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22145, 26 June 1935, Page 15
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