SENTENCES FOR THEFT
(By Telegraph.—Press Association,) AUCKLAND, Ist August. At the Supreme Court Newell Harry Williams was found guilty of receiving a coat knowing it had been stolen. ThQ jury added a recommendation to mercy. Mr. Paterson, the Assistant-Crown Prosecutor, stressed the serionsness of pillaging on the waterfront. In recent months the shipping companies had reported losses amounting to £4000. Mr. Justice Stringer said that tho prisoner's connection with the offences in question was suspicious. He must accept the finding of the jury, though he did not understand on what grounds they had made the recommendation to mercy. He sentenced the accused to six months' imprisonment. George Crompton Mansfield, for theft, was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour. Thomas M'Fadden, for theft of £6 10s from a drunken e man, was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour, and Ernest Leslie Elvy, on twenty-one charges of theft of money exceeding £.100 whilst in the employ of the Railway Department,. was sentenced to reformative treatment for a period not exceeding eighteen months.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 28, 2 August 1927, Page 6
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170SENTENCES FOR THEFT Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 28, 2 August 1927, Page 6
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