THEFT OF PURSE.
A LIFE OF CRIME. HAL LI GAN SENTENCED. LENGTHY RECORD CITED. “You have apparently resolved on a career of crime and your instincts are definitely anti-social," stated MiJustice Smith in the Supreme Court at Hamilton this afternoon, in imposing sentence on Francis Halligan (35), who was this morning found guilty of theft from a dwelling. Pleading for the prisoner, Mr W. Noble said although Halligan had a lengthy record of offences he had not been in serious trouble for the last year or two. The value of the goods stolen was small and -prisoner had already spent nearly three months in gaol. His Honour told the prisoner that the maximum term of imprisonment for his offence was 14 years. Ilalligan’s list of previous convictions dated from 1912, when he was a boy of 15. In 1926 he was sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment in Christchurch for theft and in 1928 he was sentenced to three years for the s»ne offence. In 1930 prisoner was found guilty of being illegally on premises, trespassing on a race course, being idle and disorderly and theft, lie had apparently chosen a career of crime. Halligan was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment with hard labour, to be followed by reformative detention for a period not exceeding three years.
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18877, 22 February 1933, Page 8
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216THEFT OF PURSE. Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18877, 22 February 1933, Page 8
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