PRISONERS SENTENCED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHKISTCHURCH, 24th August. At the Supreme Court to-day, Arthur Lancelot Cytil Watkins, 35, married, charged with setting fire to a motor-truck, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Counsel for Watkins said the man had been engaged iv buying and selling sheepskins in North Canterbury. The truck destroyed was used in the business. He submitted that the offence was com- | mitt'ed in a spirit of mischief. The Crown Prosecutor said it seemed clear that the offence was committed * while the accused was in a drunken party, and that there was no ulterior motive. The offence, however, was aggravated by the accused trying to place tile blame for setting fire to the truck on another man. His Honour said the offence was a serious one. William Alexander Martin,' for breaking, entering, and theft, was sentenced to eighteen months' reformative detention.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 48, 25 August 1931, Page 5
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