BURGLARS SENTENCED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4411, 30 October 1934, Page 3

BURGLARS SENTENCED.

When the two Cudby brothers, convicted of burglary, came before the Supreme Court, Wellington, for sentence on Saturday, they both pleaded guilty to a second indictment containing five further charges, four involving breaking and entering and theft and the fifth of possessing house-breaking tools. Mr Justice Ostler pointed out that Mervyn Cudby had a long list of offences, as many as two dozen in ID years, mostly dealing with house-breaking and theft, and involving the use of explosives. He had been deported from Canada. At the time of the 7 Cudbys’ arrest tv bad epidemic of house-breaking had come to an end. The police could have brought charges against the brothers involving fifty burglaries. "When Mr Justice Ostler announced his intention of declaring Mervyn 'Cudbv an habitual criminal, the prisoner, speaking from the dock, begged for a last chance. Mr Justice Ostler said he would show leniency if Mervyn Cudby promised to abandon his life of crime. He would not on this occasion declare him an habitual, criminal. He sentenced Mervyn Cudby to four years reformative detention, and Arthur Cudbv to three vears’ detention.