THEFT FROM STORE
PRISON TERM FOR CARPENTER COMMENT ON HIGH EARNINGS (Per United Press Association). WELLINGTON. Jan. 14. Sentencing James Hardy, aged 30. a carpenter, to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour for breaking and entering and theft, the Chief Justice. Sir Michael Myers, remarked on the fact that the prisoner was earning £8 5s a week at the time, and yet he broke into a woman's little store and stole 100 packets of cigarettes, four packets of tobacco and other things. Ronald Keir Duncan, aged 34, a labourer, who was committed from Palmerston North for sentence on two charges of theft from a dwelling, was given a prison term of 18 months with hard labour on each charge, the.sentences to be.concurrent.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24506, 15 January 1941, Page 6
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122THEFT FROM STORE Otago Daily Times, Issue 24506, 15 January 1941, Page 6
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