SENTENCE IMPOSED
REFORMATIVE DETENTION. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug. 19. Raymond George Kelly, postman, who admitted 25 charges dealing with the theft of postal packets, ivas sentenced to nine months’ reformative detention by Mr Justice Fair in the Supreme Court. Counsel, pleading for leniency, said that the prisoner ivas a married man, aged 34, with a wife and two children and had 20 years’ service. Gambling ivas responsible for the position he now found' himself in. Complete restitution had been made from the superannuation fund. His Honour said it was impossible to grant probation. The prisoner held a position of trust and the offences liad occurred over a period of eight months. In sentencing Kelly to nine months’ reformative detention he took into account the prisoner’s previous good character and the fact that the probation ' officer spoke highly oi him.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19370820.2.118
Bibliographic details
Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 223, 20 August 1937, Page 8
Word Count
140SENTENCE IMPOSED Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 223, 20 August 1937, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Standard. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in