STOLEN GOLD CUPS
REFORMATIVE DETENTION ORDERED [Per United Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, February 19. Richard Frederick Martyn appeared for sentence in the Supreme Court this morning for the theft of four gold cups from Hazlett Bros.’ Burwood Station last August, Mr Justice Xen. nedy ordered the prisoner to be detained for reformative purposes for 15 months. . In passing sentence, His Honour said the crime had long been evolved in prisoner’s mind, and for months the plunder had been concealed, and its whereabouts was only revealed under duress. . . “You have not been in trouble tor many years,” added the Judge, “ but your previous experiences should have taught you that dishonesty does not pay. In view of the fact that you have not been in trouble since 1918 I propose to make the sentence one ot reformative detention, and not hard labour.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22577, 19 February 1937, Page 9
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139STOLEN GOLD CUPS Evening Star, Issue 22577, 19 February 1937, Page 9
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