THREE YEARS IN GAOL
SENTENCE ON L. E. MORLAND. THEFT OF GOLD WORTH £31,496. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 19. Leo Edward Morland, who was found guilty by a jury on a charge of the theft of 3650 ounces of gold valued at £31,496, the property of the Arahura Gold Dredging Company, was sentenced to three years’ hard labour by Mr Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court today. His Honour said that Morland had been in custody in the United States and in New Zealand for over two years, and he thought it proper that he should take that into consideration. His Honour added that counsel and the jury had urged that undue opportunity was presented to Morland to commit the crime, but it was his duty to say publicly that opportunity did not justify nor condone a crime. Morland was engaged in the wholesale plunder of his employers and had made elaborate preparations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1943, Page 4
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