RAILWAYMEN’S THEFT
IMPRISONMENT FOR THREE PORTERS (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 14. An example had to be made of prisoners, not so much to punish them as to deter others and stamp out the thieving of goods in transit, said the Chief Justice (Sir Humphrey O’Leary) in the Supreme Court, sentencing three railway porters to eight months hard labour oh a joint charge of stealing a bale of blankets, the property of the Railways Department, and a taxi driver to six months imprisonment for receiving some of the blankets. The taxi-driver, Claude Vincent Dennis, collapseci in the dock on hearing the sentence. The porters were Samuel David Anderson, aged 29, Cyril. James Lennon, aged 29 and Thomas Levin Dunn, aged 37. “I must show that thefts of this kind are not lightly to be embarked on,” said the chief justice. “If such penalties have no effect judges will have to consider increasing them. The railwaymen, by their acts, had brought into disrepute their fellow workers, who were a very fine body of men.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 February 1947, Page 6
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