BURGLARY CHARGES
ACCUSED SENTENCED. ‘ WELLINGTON. This Day. A brief but moving plea from the dock after counsel liad spoken on his behalf and as Judge Ostler aauis about to pass sentence upon him .in the Supreme Court, saved Mervyn Cudby from being declared an habitual criminal.
With his brother, Arthur Cudby, he appeared for sentence on five charges of house-breaking, to Avhich Arthur Cudby nearing the end of the trial had dramatically pleaded guilty on Thursday, and on Avhich Mervyn Cudby Avas found guilty. This morning each pleaded guilty to four other charges of house-breaking and to a charge of liaA-ing been found unlaAvfully in possession of -housebreaking instruments. Judge Ostler* although having just previously expressed his intention of doing so, refrained from declaring Mervyn Cudby an habitual criminal and ordered reformative detention for a. period not exceeding three years.— (P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 27 October 1934, Page 4
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141BURGLARY CHARGES Wairarapa Daily Times, 27 October 1934, Page 4
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