DARING ROBBERY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 142, 15 May 1930, Page 7

DARING ROBBERY.

HARD LABOUR SENTENCE. Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL, May 14. Enacted in the Supreme Court today was the final phase of the dramatic* robbery at Longwood recently, when a bag containing the fortnight’s pav-roll (amounting to over £400) of the Longwood sawmill was stolen in a particularly daring manner. “Prisoner appears to be a man born out of his generation. He is quite out of touch with modern society and seems to have preferred a life in the bush, where he lived on game and in the manner of a savage,” said Mr B. W. Hewat, when pleading that leniency might be shown toward. Timothy Edward Cosgrove, who, having pleaded guilty to the theft of the sum of £426 19s 6d at Longwood, and to breaking and entering and theft of £47 6s 3d 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 his favour, but I personally am satisfied that lie did not hatch the offence,” emphasised Mr Hewat. His Honour (to prisoner): You have pleaded guilty to stealing the sum of £426 19s 6d* sawmill locomotive, and you have likewise pleaded guilty to breaking and entering a shop and to stealing goods therefrom to the value of £47 6s 3d. It is clear from the depositions that your crimes were predominated and executed by you with boldness. I do 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 person who has preferred a second life, and one at that inhnany respects dishonest, to that of 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 each charge, such sentences.to run concurrently.