THEFT OF PAYROLL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 16 May 1930, Page 8

THEFT OF PAYROLL

MAN WHO PREFER I? ED BUSH LIFE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL. May 14. Enacted in the Supreme Court- this afternoon was the final phase oi a dramatic robbery at Lon gw ood leceirtly, when a bag containing a fortnight s pay-roll (amounting to over £4oo} oi the Longwood sawmill "'as; -stolen in a particularly daring; manner, j “Prisoner appears to be at man born out of his generation. He is quite out of touch with modern society and seems to have preferred, life in the bush, where he lived dii game and ill the manner of a savage,” said Mr.. B. I\. Hewat when pleading that leuieney might be shown towards Timothy Edward Cosgrove. w;iw>, having pleaded guilty to the theft -of the sum of £426 19s 6d at Longwood and breaking muff entering and the theft of £4 l 6s del from a store at Pahia. appeared before Mr. Justice Kennedy for sentence. Counsel said' that prisoner refused to divulge the names of the other persons in the affair. “That may or may not be in hisi favour, hut. 1 personally am •satisfied he did not hatch the offence/’ said' -Mr.. Hewat. ...... “You- have pleaded guilty to stealing the sum of £426 19s 6d -from a. sawmill locomotive/.’ 'said His Honour, “and you have likewise pleaded guilty to breaking! and entering a shop and to- stealing goods therefrom- to-., the value of £47' 6» 3d. It is- clear from the depositions that your crimes were premeditated and executed by you w-ith boldness. Ido not on the material before me take the view that you are a man born out of his generation as your counsel has suggested, but rather that you are a. lazy personyw-ho- has preferred a secluded life, 'un.d one at that in many respects dishonest, to a. normal life. I shall sentence you to imprisonment with hard labour for two years, to be followed -by Reformative detention for one year. That is the- sentence on ea ch charge, sitch -senterices to run concurrently. ”,