A MONTH'S GAOL
ATTEMPT TO STEAL SHEEP
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day
"Sheep stealing is easy to commit and difficult to detect, and both accused will be sentenced to one month's imprisonment with.hard labour," said Mr. H. A. Young, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day when William Frederick Stokes, 35, and Frank Walter Heywood, 28, appeared on a joint charge of attempting to steal at Belfast on January 14, sheep valued at £1, the property of Thomas Borthwick and Son (Australia) Ltd. Both pleaded guilty.
Detective-Sergeant Sinclair said that for some time past Borthwicks had been missing sheep. A watch, had been kept and the ! accused were caught red-handed. . One escaped but later both frankly admitted to the police that they had gone into the paddock for the purpose of stealing sheep. Stokes had been before the Court previously. Last Saturday, said counsel, Heywood had gone with Stokes to fast and had got very drunk. Heywood had acted as he did under the influence of liquor. He said he had not been to the paddock on any previous occasion and there was nothing to suggest that this was not so. Stokes also had been under the influence of drink.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 15
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200A MONTH'S GAOL Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 15
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