SHEEP-STEALER PUNISHED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CiHRISTOHUKOH, May 15. For sheep-stealing Edgar Maxwell Husband, aged 24, a single man. ot Levels, was sentenced to reformative detention for twelve months by Mr. Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court. His Honour said that the offence ot sheep-stealing was always regarded as serious. It tended to cause difficulties of a very unpleasant character in country districts, it was usually difficult to trace and it had always been the policy of the Court to treat it with severity. It was true that prisoner had been overseas for a short period, but the probation officer reported that since Husband's return he had been behaving in a very irresponsible and unsatisfactory way. He had a duty to the community and prisoner in impressing on him the necessity for mending his ways.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 195, 16 May 1944, Page 2
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134SHEEP-STEALER PUNISHED Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 195, 16 May 1944, Page 2
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