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SENTENCE IMPOSED.
HAMILTON, Monday,
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 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.
Tho Crown prosecutor, reviewing the case, stated the police were of opinion accused was mentally weak. This met with an indignant denial by accused from the dock. Ho now knew, he said, that in continuing a career of crime he was hitting his head against a stone wall. He maintained he was as sane as any normal person. -(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 February 1935, Page 4
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