THEFT OF MOTOR-CAR
A MILITARY DECORATION? THE JUDGE SCEPTICAL. PEB pfIESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, June 2. At the Supreme Court, before Mr Justice Adams, Albert Cundy, 21 years of age, who had pleaded guilty to the theft of a motor-car, came up for sentence. Counsel asked for leniency on account of the youth of the prisoner, who had served during the war in the Royal Navy. He had been lent a motor-car, and had sold it. Acting on the advice of bad companions, he fled to Sydney, and there his “friends’’ deserted him, with the money. “Be apparently left his wife in England,” remarked the. judge. On eiamining the prisoner’s discharges. His Honour found that an entry about the “D.S.M.” was not properly recorded, and seemed to have been added a long time after the issue of the discharge. “I can’t attach value to the entry,” said His Honour. “The honours of the Empire should be jealously guarded. I don’t think I have the power to impound the book, hut I think, pending evidence that the entrv is genuine, something should he done. I have great doubts as to its being genuine.” The prisoner was remanded. Inquiries as to the decoration having been awarded will be made at the Admiralty Office in Wellington.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11226, 3 June 1922, Page 6
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212THEFT OF MOTOR-CAR New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11226, 3 June 1922, Page 6
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