A MOVING PLEA
Saves Wellington Prisoner FROM HABITUAL DECLARATION JUDGE OSTLER S DECISION (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day. A brief but moving plea from the dock, after counsel had spoken on his behalf and Mr. Justice Ostler was about to pass sentence upon him in the Supreme Court, saved Mervyn John Cudby from being declared an habitual criminal. With his brother, Arthur, he appeared for sentence on five charges of house-breaking, to which near the end of the trial he had dramatically pleaded guilty on Thursday, and on which Mervyn was found guilty by the jury.
This morning each pleaded guilty to four other charges of house-break-ing. and to a charge of having been found unlawfully in possession of house-breaking instruments.
Judge Ostler, although having just previously expressed his intention of doing so, refrained from declaring Mervyn an habitual criminal, and ordered reformative detention for a period not exceeding four years. Arthur Cudby was sentenced similarly for a period not exceeding three years.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 247, 27 October 1934, Page 5
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