Declared Habitual Criminal
MAN SENT TO GAOL FOR TWO YEARS. “You ask that I should send you to a mental hospital for treatment, but 1 have no power to do that. If it turns out that you require treatment at a mental hospital, the prison authorities will be able to arrange that,” stated the Hon. Mr. Justice Ostler in declaring Norman Paul Nesbit, aged 32, an habitual criminal and sentencing him to two years’ hard labour, for indecent assault, when the latter, having pleaded guilty, appeared in the Supreme Court at Palmerston North on Saturday morning for sentence. “Jt is difficult to know what to do with you, ” his Honour continued. “You have reached a stage where you are a menace to the public. You have 14 convictions for theft, breaking and entering, and false pretences, and now you have started this. 1 think you should be put away where you can’t be a menace any longer. If you require medical treatment, the prison authorities will attend to that; I can only treat you as a sane man.” His Honour then passed sentence as stated previously.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 32, 8 February 1937, Page 8
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186Declared Habitual Criminal Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 32, 8 February 1937, Page 8
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