ADMITTED TO PROBATION
SOLDIER CHARGED WITH - MISCHIEF (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 7. A man, who when a member of the New Zealand Division, shot a fellow soldier dead and was sentenced to death, had his sentence commuted to one of life imprisonment, and later reduced to three years’ imprisonment, by a superior military authority. He was released on July 8, 1947. This was revealed in the Magistrate’s Court today when Harry Edward Denyer, aged 35, a labourer and soldier, pleaded guilty to a charge of wilfully damaging a motor-car door valued at £2 10s, thereby committing mischief. Senior-Sei-geant J. Southworth said that early this morning a beer bottle thrown from a tram-car in Karangahape Road broke a taxi window. Denyer said he was having an argument with some Islanders and threw the bottle at one, but it missed and hit the taxi. Mr K. C. Aetkins for the accused said Denyer had done good war service, but had an unfortunate experience when overseas.
The Magistrate: Is this the man who shot the doctor in Egypt? Mr Aekins: Yes. He was intoxicated at the time that happened, too. After warning him to keep away from liquor, the Magistrate admitted Denyer to probation for 12 months, a condition being that he abstain from liquor and made good the damage.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 75, 8 January 1949, Page 7
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