THEFT FROM BUSH TRAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20564, 15 May 1930, Page 12

THEFT FROM BUSH TRAIN.

OVER £4OO IN WAGES. THREE YEARS IN PRISON. [|)Y , ra.E(ill.U , H."kl , llEßS ASSOCIATION.] IN VERC AUG ILL, Wednesday. A sequel was enacted in (lie Supremo Court to-day to the robbery at Lotigwood recently, when a bag containing over £4OO, tho wages of tho Longwood sawmill employees, was stolen in a particularly daring manner. "Accused appears to bo a.man born out of his generation. Ho is quite out of touch with modern society and seems to have preferred a life in tho bush, where ho lived en game and in (be manner of a savage," said Mr. B. W. llewat, when pleading that leniency might bo shown toward /.Timothy Edward Cosgrovo, who, having pleaded guilty to tho theft of tho money and to breaking and entering and theft of £47 from a store at Pallia, appeared before Mr. Justice Kennedy for sentence. Counsel said accused refused to divulge tho names of tho otjier persons in the affair. "That may or may not bo in his favour," ho added. "But 1 person- j ally-am satisfied that he did not hatch the offence." His Honor, to Accused: "You have pleaded guilty to stealing £426 from a sawmill locomotive, and you have likewise pleaded guilty (o breaking and en tering a shop ami (o stealing goods to j the value of £47. It is clear from the depositions that your crimes were premeditated and executed by you with boldness. "1. do not, on the material before me, take (lie view thai you are 'a man born out of bis generation,' but rather that you are a lazy person, who has preferred J a life in many respects dishonest to that of a normal life. 1 shall sentence you | to imprisonment fir two years, to be followed by reformative) detention for one year. That is tho sentence on each charge, such sentences to run concurrently."