PAY TRAIN ROBBED

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 972, 15 May 1930, Page 12

PAY TRAIN ROBBED

THIEF GAOLED FOR THREE YEARS ■ BAG WITH £4OO STOLEN Press Association INVERCARGILL, Wednesday. , - A sequel was enacted in the Supreme Court today, to the robbery at Longwood recently, when a bag containing over £4OO, the wages of the Longwood sawmill employees, was stolen in a particularly daring manner. “Accused appears to be a man born out of his generation. He is quite out of touch with modern society and seems to have preferred a life in the hush, where he-lived on game and in the manner of a savage,” said Mr. B. W. Hewat, when pleading that leniency might be shown toward Timothy Edward Cosgrove, who, having pleaded guilty to the theft of the money and to breaking and entering and theft of £47 from a store at Pahia, appeared before Mr. Justice Kennedy for sentence. Counsel said accused refused to divulge the names of the other persons in the affair. “That may or may not be in his favour,” he added. “But I personally am satisfied that he did not plan the offence.” His Honour, to accused: “You have pleaded guilty to stealing £426 from a sawmill locomotive, and you have likewise pleaded guilty to breaking and entering a shop and to stealing goods to the value of £ 47. It is clear from the depositions that your crimes were premeditated and executed by you with boldness. “I do not, on the material before me, take the view that you are ‘a man born out of his generatian,’ but rather that you are a lazy person, who has preferred a life in many respects dishonest to that of a normal life. I shall sentence you to imprisonment for two years, to be followed by reformative detention for one year. That is the sentence on each charge, such sentences to run concurrently.”