LABOURER SENT TO PRISON
(United Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 16. John Donne Collins, aged 26, a labourer, was sentenced by Mr Justice Blair to four years’ imprisonment with hard labour for false pretences (seven charges) of forgery, (four), uttering (four) and theft (one). Thomas William Hill, aged 23, a labourer, was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention on seven charges of breaking, entering and theft. Hill later in the Magistrate’s Court was convicted and discharged on two charges of theft from the New Zealand Railways. It was stated that the thefts were from railway carriages in the Wellington station, where the accused and others were in the habit of sleeping. Offences of this kind had been prevalent.
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Southland Times, Issue 23769, 17 March 1939, Page 4
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