ESCAPEE SENTENCED
FURTHER SIX MONTHS i (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Colin William Glass, 21, .who escaped from Mount Eden gaol on December 4, and was recaptured a week later, was sentenced to-day to six months’ imprisonment additional to his original five years’ sentence. He was charged before the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, with escaping, with stealing clothes from a house*, and unlawfully converting a motor-car. In reply to the magistrate, the prisoner- said be had only committed the other offences to aid him in escaping. Mr. Hunt said that if the prisoner had chosen to go to the Supreme Court on those charges, he probably would have been declared an habitual criminal. Ho did not intend to punish the prisoner for the other offences, except to correct him, but for escaping be would be sentenced to six months.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18585, 20 December 1934, Page 6
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141ESCAPEE SENTENCED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18585, 20 December 1934, Page 6
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