THEFTS OVER PERIOD
CAREFULLY PLANNED SCHEME (Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 10. The plea that both prisoners came of respectable families, did not mitigate, but rather aggravated their offences, said Mr Justice Fair to-daiy when sentencing Douglas Russell Newman (27), and Keith Bryson (27). Newman had, admitted stealing goods, the property of his employers (the Farmers’ Auctioneering Company), over a period of three years, and Bryson admitted selling the stolen j|pods for Newman. The judge said that Newman, during the period had had ample time to consider what he was doing. It was a carefully planned scheme. Bryson’s case was rather different. He had Apparently been induced by the other man to share, in-the scheme and its proceeds. Newman was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour, and Bryson to two years’ reformative detention.
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Evening Star, Issue 21821, 10 September 1934, Page 11
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136THEFTS OVER PERIOD Evening Star, Issue 21821, 10 September 1934, Page 11
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