A Career of Crime.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 234, 30 August 1884, Page 2

A Career of Crime.

< W ; : .- — ♦ ' — — - ...... ..:", '.^ fUNIXKD PREBS>ABS'«IAtIQN.)^ ' ■'•■ ! -- • ■•• ••'"• ■¥„' ■• • >■' "■'• '•'■ , '; ; Inverc abcjill, A ugust 29 . » ■ At the^Siipreme Court yesterda^ r JrH. 0. Chridtie was convicted orsetttng fire to ayiiotise'at- Sq-mbe Creok, Wakatipih wbich had on the day of the^fire been sold to one Harailtop, bufc^nicfrhad formerly ; been the prb-" ,pety of the pnisoner's rnQtherrinrlaw, Champio^ The . p\isonep was sentenced to seven years'. penal servy tude. The Qtown Prpsecutoir ata^4: that the prisoner bftd ,b,e^i known to. tfce police for a, nwniber oif years j that sentence in , j)upe/liA ; of t fouti r^ekrs' penal flerylJjud^JE'qr r.npe<j :tlwiti aftse^ that he.^as convicted ; of horse-steal-ing, ;^receiving- , a, .sentence ;of, one; nionthis imprisonment • that.at Qhrist* church, iii' ) 869, .three summary cpn^ v;ictionß,|were, obtained against him for larceny ; that, at, the -Supreme.. Gonrt iii Invercargill he receive^ a, Sentence of four years' pena^l seryltude for !arceny ; that two years afterwards, while in cuK^ody^s he .^scaped - from: gaol, and was sentenced to three years' penal servitude ; and.that 1 two ; mere summary convictions were obr tained against him for lafcenjf jnv Diinedin in 1886^ ' Th,e had; for the ■lastt^e.nt^ b^en, jitijle o^t o/gaoj. sitpposed; 'that the. object 'of the prisoner vras to. conceal the removal of furniture belonging to Mrs CnainpioDi by setting the on fire,