CHARGES OF BURGLARY
HARDSHIP NO EXCUSE REFORMATIVE DETENTION ORDERED. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, December 15. “ Hardship is no excuse for a wholesale career in burglary and theft,” said Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court in sentencing Wallace Mansell Jones to three years’ reformative detention on 17 charges of breaking and entering and theft. Counsel said that Jones was a married man, 27 years of age. He had been unemployed for some months. He was married 19 months ago, and it was shortly after his marriage that he became unemployed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21829, 16 December 1932, Page 5
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