JUDGE SPEAKS OUT.
A CATTLE STEALING CHARGE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Masterton, Last Night. Roy Bateup and Roy Wilmhurst found guilty in the Supreme Court o: cattle-stealing were remanded for sen tence to Monday.
In reference to a recommendation for mercy for Wilmhurst on account of his youth and low intclligenbe, Mr. Justice Salmond said that for the first time in his experience accused had tne assurance, not to say the audacity, to go into the box and try to make the jury believe he was an innocent man, when two written confessions had been handed in. Both men were admittedly liars, and Bateup, on hie own confession, was iilao not only a liar but a forger as well.' He forged documents, told lies and deceived the police. Wilmhurst, in two formal admissions, confessed his guilt, and there was not the least doubt that one of them stole the cattle. After a retirement of one and a quarter hours the jury returned a verdict of guilty.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1921, Page 5
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165JUDGE SPEAKS OUT. Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1921, Page 5
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