RECAPTURED PRISONER
GLASS BEFORE COURT
SIX MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT. WHY HE COMMITTED OFFENCES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AU CKLAND, Til ursday. Colin William Glass (21), who escaped from Mt. Eden gaol on December 4 and was recaptured a week later, was sentenced to-day to six months’ imprisonment, additional to his original five years’ sentence. He was charged before the Magistrate, Mr Hunt, with escaping, stealing 'Clothes from a house, and unlawfully 'converting a motor-car. In reply to file magistrate the prisoner said he had only committed the other offences to aid him in escaping. Mr Hunt said if prisoner had chosen to go 'to the Supreme Court on those charges he would probably have been declared an habitual criminal. He did not Intend to punish prisoner for the other offences except to convict him, but for escaping he would be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19455, 20 December 1934, Page 9
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