MONTH IN GAOL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 10

MONTH IN GAOL.

SHEEP-STEALING CHARGE. CHRISTCHURCH OFFENCE. (By Telegraph.— I'ress Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. "Sheep stealing is easy to commit and difficult to detect, and both accused will be sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour." said Mr. H. A. Young, S.M., «t the Magistrate's Court when William Frederick Stokes aged 33, and Frank Walter Hey wood, aged 28, appeared on a joint charge of attempting to steal at Belfast, on January 14, sheep valued at £1. the propel ty of Thomas and Son (Australasia), Ltd. Both pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant Sinclair said that for some time past Messrs. Borthwick had been missing sheep. A watch had been kept and accueed were caught redhanded. One man escaped, but later both frankly admitted to the police that they had gone into the paddock for the purpose of stealing alieep. Stokes had been before the Court previously. Last Saturday, said counsel, Havwood had gone with Stokes to Belfast and had got very drunk. Haywood had acted as lie did under the influence of liquor. He said he had not been to the paddock on any previous occasion, and there wa<» nothing to suggest that this was not so. Stokes also had been under the influence of drink.