MILTON POST OFFICE ROBBERY
CULPRIT'S FONDNESS FOR HORSERACING. - By Telegruph-Prees Association Duncdin, June 10. Wnltcr James Robert Keen, who had pleaded guilty in tho Lower . Court to having burglariously entered the. postmaster's residence at Milton and tho Post Office Savings Bank,- and stealing .C 520, was brought up for sentence at the Supremo Court this morning. Ho had also pleaded guilty to forging a telegram and stealing a colt at Makarara. Mr. Justice Sim said it would bo better in the prisoner's own interests that he should be deprived of his liberty for a tinie_ in order that he might bo cured of his fondness for horseraoing. He was ordered to be detained for reformative purposes for a period of not moro than three rears.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 220, 11 June 1919, Page 6
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125MILTON POST OFFICE ROBBERY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 220, 11 June 1919, Page 6
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