SIX MONTHS’ GAOL
BREAKING AND ENTERING.
(Per United Press Association.)
Hamilton, February 18. Herbert Harris Keith Maxfield was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by Mr Justice Fair in the Supreme Court at Hamilton to-day on a charge of breaking and entering at Tauranga in 1932.
Maxfield is the man who jumped from the Tauranga express last month into the Wairoa river. He was subsequently arrested at Raglan after a series of crimes including conversion and burglary. For these crimes he was sentenced to 18 months’ hard labour in the Magistrate’s Court last week, and to-day’s sentence will be cumulative.
The Crown Prosecutor, in reviewing the case, stated the police were of the opinion that accused was mentally weak.
Tliis statement met with an indignant denial by accused from the dock. He now knew that in continuing his career of crime he was hitting his head against a stone wall. He maintained he was as sane as any normal person.
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Southland Times, Issue 22510, 19 February 1935, Page 6
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