FONDNESS FOR HORSERACING
LEADS TO CRIME.
(bi teleoiufh'.—peess association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. Walter James Robert' Keen, who had pleaded guilty in the Lower Court to having burglariously entered the postmaster's residence at Milton and the. Post Office, Savings Bank, and stealing £520, was brought up'for sentence at the Supreme Court this morning. 'He had also pleaded guiltyx to forging a telegram and stealing' a colt at Makarara. Mr. Justice Sim said it would be better in the prisoner's own interests that he should be deprived of his liberty for a time in order that he might be cured of his fondness for horse-rac-ing. He was ordered to be detained for reformative purposes for a period of not more than three years.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 135, 10 June 1919, Page 8
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121FONDNESS FOR HORSERACING Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 135, 10 June 1919, Page 8
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