ILLEGAL OPERATIONS.
_ -♦" REMARKS BY CHIEF JUSTICE. A DRASTIC SENTENCE. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, November 14 William Knox, who was found guilty of performing an illegal operation, was to-day sentenced to live years imprisonment with hard labour. The Chiet Justice,-in sentencing the prisoner, who has a wife and two children, said there was no evidence that Knox had been guilty of the crime in a systematic manner, otherwise the sentence would have been much severer, borne girls, his Honour said, appeared to think that it was more shameful to give birth to an illegitimate child than to undergo an operation ot the class in question. It was unfortunate for girls if they fell away, but it'was a thousand times better that they should have illegitimate children than submit to operations ot .this land. Society should recognise this. The Legislature had recognised the .gravity ot I "this crime by making it punishable by imprisonment for life. Had it not been for the rule laid down, his Honour said he might have been inclined to pass a lower sentence, but looking at all the circumstances he did not think he could.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8412, 14 November 1912, Page 5
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