CATTLE STEALING.
REMANDED FOR SENTENCE. MASTER-TON, September 11. Roy Bateup and Rov Wilmhurst were found guilty of cattle-stealing by the Supreme Court, and remanded for sentence til! Monday. AA itli reference to a recommendation for mercy to Wilmhurst on account of his youth and low intelligence. Air Justice Salmond said it was the first time ill his experience in which an accused had had the assurance, not to say tho audacity, to go into the box and try to make the jury believe he was an innocent man when two written confessions had been handed in. Both men were admittedly liars, continued Mr Justice Salmond. in summing up, and Bateup, by his own confession, was also not only n liar but a forger as well. He had forged documents, told lies, and deceived police, and Wilmhurst in two forma! admissions had confessed his guilt. He had not tho least doubt one of them stole the cattle. After a retirement of li hours the jury returned a verdict of guilty.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3522, 13 September 1921, Page 22
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