“A LOST GAMBLE.”
TWO YEARS’ HARD LABOUR. JUDGE COMMENTS ON CHIME. (toy TelegTanii—press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Albert Harris, married, a labourer, and Leslie Howard, married, a salesman and blacksmith, were sentenced lo iwo years hard labour by Mr Justice Norllicroft io-day on a charge of house-breaking and llicft. “You took a gamble and, r lliink, in tooth cases must regard yourselves as having lost, since you were delected,” said Mis Honour. “It is my duly lo make the odds on such a gamble sufficiently imallraelivp lo defer you from commuting such offences again.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19759, 14 December 1935, Page 10
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