STEALING BULLION FROM WAIHI
4 PRISONER SENTENCED. ■ By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland July 7. In the Supreme Court, William Duncan Smith, employed by the Waihi Gold Mining Company in the battery at Waikino, who had pleaded guilty in the T.ower Court to having stolen bullion slimes valued at about 42200 0, came up for sentence. Accused's counsel -said Smith was undoubtedly a tool in tho hands of a third party, who disposed of tho stolen bul. lion, giving Smith only a quarter of its value. Smith had rendered every as- ' 6istance to the police to trace this man, and restored .£IOO. His Honour said the thefts had continued for some time, and had been skilfully done with criminal intent. Ho imposed a sentence of reformative treatment, not exceeding eighteen months.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2818, 8 July 1916, Page 3
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129STEALING BULLION FROM WAIHI Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2818, 8 July 1916, Page 3
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