SHEEP-STEALING MAN PINED £50.
(BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Charles Richard Craythorne, convicted of the theft of two sheep, appearod for sentence in the Supretne Court. The Crown suggested that the neighbours had lost 400 sheep, and while the prisonei 1 was farming at Motunau sheep were missed. Mr. Justice Denniston said he was not entitled to treat the case as more than the theft of two sheep. He could not directly punish him for an offence of which he had not been convicted. Pri« soner was fined £60.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 118, 20 May 1914, Page 8
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91SHEEP-STEALING MAN PINED £50. Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 118, 20 May 1914, Page 8
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