JUMPED FROM TRAIN INTO RIVER
Man Sentenced for Entering DENIES POLICE OPINION FROM DOCK By Telegraph —Press Association. Hamilton, February 18. Herbert Harris Keith Maxfield was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by MT Justice Fair In the Supreme Court at Hamilton. to-day on a cliatge of breaking and entering at Tauraug.i Maxfield was the man who jumped from the Tauranga express last month into the Wairoa River. He "’as subsequently arrested at Raglan after, aseries of crimes, including conversion and burglary. For these crimes he was sentenced to 18 months h.u d labour in the Magistrates Court ms. week and to-day’s nentence will be cumulative. . , The Crown prosecutor, reviewing tac case, stated the police were of opinion accused was mentally weak. Tins met with an indignant denial by accused from the dock. .He now knew, he said, that in continuing career of crime he was hitting his hea I against a stone wall. He maintained he was as sane as any normal person.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 124, 19 February 1935, Page 11
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