SERIOUS VIEW
RIOT THIEF SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS IN GAOL. e WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Another echo of the street disturbances on May 10 was heard in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, whsn Herbert James McLeod, aged 25, was charged with stealing two rings, a gold pencil, and a pendant, valued at £10, the property of Walter Smart. He pleaded guilty. The accused, said Detective-Sergt. Trieklehank, had said that he pickad up the articles in the street outside Mr. Smart's shop. All the property had been recovered except one ring. "I think I am bound to take a serious view of anyone who takes advantage of civil disturhance to commit theft — a very serious view, said Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M. "I think it is perhaps even more serious to take these things during that disturhance than to take them in the ordinary way." He sentenced the accused to six months' imprisonment.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 263, 30 June 1932, Page 4
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