THIRTY YEARS AFTER
OLD CRIMINAL’S LAPSE “N.Z.’S GREATEST SAFEBREAKER” “The greatest safe-breaker this country has ever had.” If Henry Edward Jefferd, who appeared for sentence in the Magistrate’s Court this r\orning on a charge of stealing a dress ornament valued at 4s 6d, from Milne and Choyce’s, has not achieved fame in his lifetime, he has at any rate earned notoriety. Chief Detective Cummings paid him the tribute quoted and added that although Jefferd was a very old criminal he had gone straight for the last four years, and for a period of seven years before that. His longest sentence was five years —served away back in the ‘nineties for safe-breaking. “He says that if you give him a fur--ther chance he’ll endeavour to go straight,” the Chief Detective concluded. "I drink very heavy,” added the accused. “Well, as you’ve had a week’s imprisonment (on remand), I’ll convict you,” said Mr. McKean. S.M. ‘‘You must take out a prohibition order for 12 months."
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 4, 26 March 1927, Page 9
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163THIRTY YEARS AFTER Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 4, 26 March 1927, Page 9
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