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Criminal Declares He is Sane. Per 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 was the man who last month jumped from the Tauranga express into the Wairoa River, and was subsequently arrested at Raglan after a series of crimes, including conversion and burglary. For these crimes he was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment with hard labour in the Magistrate’s Court last week, and today’s sentence will be cumulative. The Crown Prosecutor, reviewing the case, stated that the police were of the opinion that accused was mentally weak. This met with an indignant denial by accused, who said that he now knew that in continuing'his career of crime he was hitting his head against a stone wall. He maintained that he was as sane as any normal person.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20543, 19 February 1935, Page 8
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