SUPREME COURT
PRISONERS SENTENCED CHRISTCHURCH, October 9. In the Supreme Court Thomas Samuel W est, bootmaker, of Cheviot, who had pleaded guilty to the theft of £164 belonging to the Cheviot Trotting Club, of which he was secretary, and to forging a bank certificate and stealing £25 from the Domain Board, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. Counsel for West said that the accused had served in the war, attaining the rank of captain and winning the Croix de Guerre and other decorations. Mr Justice Kennedy said that the theft from the Trotting Club appeared to have been systematic. It was not easy to sentence a man whose earlier record had been so creditable. However, he had abused a trust.
Others sentenced were Ernest Herbert Smith, lately of the Borstal, theft from a shop, 18 months’ reformative treatment; Charles Frederick Harvey, burglary, three years’ detention in the Borstal; James Louis O'Connell, unlawful carnal knowledge, six months’ imprisonment.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4048, 13 October 1931, Page 19
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