PRISONER SENTENCED.
DUNEDIN, June 10. Walter \James Robert Keen," who had pleaded guilty in the Lower Court to having burglariously entered the ■postmaster's residence at Mil ton and the Post Office. Savings Bank, and stealing £520, was brought up for sentence at the Supreme Court this morning. He had also pleaded guilty to forging a telegram and stealing a colt, at Makarora. Mr Justice Sim said that it would be better, in the prisoner's own interests, to deprive him of his liberty for a time, in order that he might be cured of his fondness for horse-racing. He would be detained for reformative- purposes for a period of not . more than three years.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9631, 11 June 1919, Page 7
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113PRISONER SENTENCED. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9631, 11 June 1919, Page 7
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