HARD LABOUR.
SHEEP-STEALING CHARGE. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 21. “Sheep-stealing is easy to commit and difficult to detect, and both accused will be sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour,” said Mr H. A. Young, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, when "William Frederick Stokes, aged 35, and Frank Walter Hoywood, aged 28, appeared on a joint charge of attempting to steal at Relfast, on January 14, a sheep valued at £1 the property of Thomas Borthwiek and Son (Australasia), Ltd. Both pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant Sinclair said that, for some time past, Borthwicks had been missing sheep. A watch had been kept, and accused had been caught red-handed. One escaped, but later both frankly admitted to the police that they had gone into the paddock for the purpose of stealing sheep. Stokes had been before the Court previously. Last Saturday, said counsel, Heywood had gone with Stokes to Belfast, and bad got very drunk. Heywood had acted as he did under the influence of liquor. He said, he had not been to the paddock on any previous occasion, and there was nothing to suggest, that, this was not so. Stokes had also been under the influence of drink.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 45, 21 January 1939, Page 5
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