THE CRIMINAL MICROBE
BURGLARY AS OCCUPATION NO WAY TO MAKE IT PAY. (Peg United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 17. “ The least payable of any occupation is burglary,” said Mr Justice Blair in sentencing James Patrick Gleeson, aged 19, to Borstal detention for three years for shop breaking and theft. “ There is no way by which you can make burglary pay; that is putting it on a low ground—there are moral grounds as well. I intend giving you a sentence to see if you cannot get the criminal microbe out of your system.” Gleeson had previous convictions. The judge remarked that he really had qualified to be an habitual criminal though only 19 years old.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21906, 18 March 1933, Page 6
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