William Joseph Gee

Chinese Criminal

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch Rep.) OAVING commenced his criminal career at the age of fifteen, William Joseph Gee, a half-caste Chinese, has compiled a bad record m the past nine years. He has already served terms of reformative detention. Recently he was brought before i the Christchurch Supreme Court for sentence on eight charges of housebreaking and theft and two of housebreaking with intent to commit a crime. He told Mr. Justice Adams that his downfall was due to gambling on racehorses. Gee was sentenced to two years' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. NZ Truth , Issue 1273, 24 April 1930, Page 5