THEFT OF GOLD CUPS.
Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL, Feb. 19. •Richard Frederick Martyn appeared for sentence before the Supreme Court this morning, on a charge of the theft of four gold cups from Buryvood Station, last August. Mr Justice Kennedy ordered that prisoner be detained for reformative purposes for fifteen months. In passing sentence, His Honour said that the crime had long been evolved in the mind of accused, and for months the plunder had been concealed and its rvherealxmts only revealed under duress. “You have notbeen in trouble for many years.” added the Judge, “but your previous experiences should have taught you that dishonesty does not pay. In ydeyv of the fact that you have not been in trouble since 1918, I propose to make the sentence one of reformative detention and not hard labour.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 69, 20 February 1937, Page 4
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