DRAMATIC ROBBERY
LONGWOOD CASE
(By Telegraph—Press Association)
INVERCARGILL, May 14
Enacted in the Supreme Court this afternoon was the final phrase of the dramatic'robbery. at Longwood recently, ’ when a. bag containing the fortnight’s pay ’ roll (amounting to over £400) of Longwood Sawmill was stolen in a particularly daring man-, ner. “The prisoner appears to be a man born out of his generation. He is quite out of touch with medern society, and seems to have preferred life in the bush where he lived on game, and in the manner of a savage,” stressed Mr 15. W. Hewitt, when'pleadiiig that leniency. might be shown towards Timothy Edwhrcl Cosgrove, who. having pleaded guilty to the theft of the sum of £420 19s Od at Longwood and to breaking and entering, and theft of £47 Gs 3d from a store at Pallia, appeared at the Bar before Mr Justice Kennedy for sentence. Counsel said that the prisoner refused to divulge the names of the other persons in the affairs. “That may or may not he in his favour,” but I personally am satisfied that he did not hatch the offence,” emphasised Mr Hewitt. His Honour (to the prisoner: “Yon have pleaded guilty to stealing th' sum of £426 19s fid from a sawmil locomotive, and you have likewise pleaded guilty to breaking and entering a shop and to stealing goods from there to the value of £47 .Gs 3d. ll is clear,, from the depositions that your crimes were premediated, a’ executed by you with boldness. Ido not, on the material before me, take tiie view that you are “ a man born out of his generation” (as your counsel has suggested), but rather that you are a lazy person, who has preferred a strange life, and one, at that, in many respects dishonest to a normal life. I shall sentence you to imprisonment with hard labour for two years, to be followed by reformative detention for one year. That is a. sentence on each charge, such sentences to run concurrently.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1930, Page 6
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