COMMONWEALTH ITEMS
A YOUTHFUL CRIMINAL. (By Telegraph—Tress Assn.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, January 21. A you Hi named Taylor has been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for housebreaking. The ' police discovered one thousand five hundred pounds worth of property, the proceeds of over one hundred and fifty robberies. The loot included five loaded revolvers, and Taylor habitually slept with two under nil pillow. Accused, in a written statement, pleaded that he was a victim of curcumstances. Temptation came his way and he yielded to it. The police allege that Taylor broke into and robbed one hundred and eighty houses.
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Southland Times, Issue 17560, 26 January 1914, Page 5
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96COMMONWEALTH ITEMS Southland Times, Issue 17560, 26 January 1914, Page 5
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