TERM OF HARD LABOUR
GUILTY OF SERIOUS OFFENCE. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 5. George Frederick Hewer was sentenced by Mr Justice Fair to two and a half years’ hard labour for unlawfully causing a noxious drug to bo taken with intent. Counsel for Hewer, Air Singer, said that it was to be remembered tnau riie whole burden of the offence had been somewhat cruelly placed on the shoulders of Hewer. There were a number of self-confessed accomplices, among them two women, who had not only been protected by the authorities but whose names had been suppressed. The whole spirit of legal revenge had been concentrated on Hewer. “Different opinions which are held by various sections of society as to the gravity of this class of offence must be disregarded by me,” said the Judge. “I must consider only the provisions of the Crimes Act.” His Honor took into account the fact that the prisoner had already been imprisoned for threo months.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 21, 6 November 1935, Page 2
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