THEFT FROM GOVERNMENT
REFORMATIVE DETENTION
(Per Press Association ) AUCKLAND, this day. In the Supremo Court yesterday. Richard James Lanigan, 26, Formerly a clerk in tho Lands Department, was sentenced by MP. Justice Smith to 18 months' reformative detention for the theft of C 286 while a Government servant. Counsel said that two years ago prisoner's wife became ill, and, faced with bills, he converted two large denomination stamps into cash, and went on doing this. "While it is fairly clear that prisoner is unlikely to offend again," said His Honor, "1 have a duty to the State and therefore I cannot grant probation. If T do, it will be an intimation to every State servant with dishonest tendencies that he may take up to £3OO without fear of punishment. I take into consideration in fixing the sentence that prisoner lias confessed of his own accord. It appears that you have been engaging in gambling, and that was tho cause of your lapse." .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17175, 4 February 1930, Page 7
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