MEAN THEFT
“ALL CRIMINALS ARE FOOLS." Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 15. “Your counsel has described you as more of a fool than a knave. All criminals are fools,” Mr Justice Herdman told Ronald Alfred Monten when sentencing him for theft in the Supreme Court 'to-day. His Honour said that the theft was a particularly mean one and almost amounted to robbing a drunken -man. The facte were that a country shepherd came to the city and in a moment of foolishness put money in Monten’s charge. The latter abused that trust and almost succeeded in absconding from New Zealand. In addition to that the prisoner took his stand in the witness box and perjured himself in an impudent fashion. Monten would be sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment with hard labour.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 141, 16 May 1929, Page 2
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131MEAN THEFT Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 141, 16 May 1929, Page 2
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