SUPREME COURT
WELLINGTON SENTENCES HABITUAL CRIMINALS (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Three criminals with lengthy records were declared by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, to .be habitual criminals. Two of them, Roy George Cudby and Charles King, appeared for sentence on charges of theft at Ilawera and New Plymouth. In addition to having served numerous sentences in New Zealand, they had records in England. The third was John Thompson, who appeared for sentence for breaking and entering and.theft at Petone. He had a,list dating from 1924. The sentences in each case were two years’ hard labor. Other prisoners sentenced were:— Geoffrey Conrad ,Spencer, for theft from a dwelling at Raetihi, two years’ probation; William Te Moananui breaking .and entering and theft at Wairoa, IS months’ reformative detention; Samuel Smith, breaking and entering and theft at Napier, .18 months’ reformative detention; Ronald Scot! Barker, live charges of breaking nnc entering and theft at Hastings, foui years’ reformative detention; Jim Davis, 20, theft.at New Plymouth, two years’ Borstal detention.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18756, 12 July 1935, Page 6
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