CRIMINAL RECORD
FIVE-YEAR SENTENCE SEQUEL TO JEWEL ROBBERY Having pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering the shop of the Anchor Exchange and Loan Company in Manners Street on May 22 and stealing £B4 in money and jewellery valued at £670, Alfred Jefferv, a seaman, aged 27, appeared for sentence before Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court, Wellington. Jefferv also appeared for sentence on two other breaking and entering charges. He was sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for five years and declared a habitual criminal. His Honor said that according to prisoner's record .Jefi'ery had already been sentenced in 19.T2 on three charges of breaking and entering, and also a charge of breaking and entering with intent, for which he got two years' hard labour. There was a conviction for theft in 1934 and for this the prisoner had received six months' hard labour. The Crown Prosecutor, Mr. P. S. K. Maeassey, stated that when the prisoner was arrested lie was in possession of explosives and a piece of rubber tubing loaded with lead.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22197, 26 August 1935, Page 15
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178CRIMINAL RECORD New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22197, 26 August 1935, Page 15
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