SQUIRTED AMMONIA.
YOUNG MEN SENTENCED. u DELIBERATE CRIMES." THREE YEARS' HARD LABOUR. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. "These crimes were not a yielding to a sudden temptation, but were deliberate. and seem to mark the culminating- point in a long record of delinquency" said Mr. Justice Kennedy in the Supreme Court, in sentencing to three vears' hard labour Leslie Richmond Henderson, aged 23, and Leslie Pearce, aged 26, on 13 charges of breaking and entering and theft, and using violence by squirting ammonia in the attempted bank robbery. Counsel for Pearce stated that from infancv he had shown a marked degree of mental deficiency. He was sentenced to reformative detention in 1926, and on release joined a whaling ship, where he came in contact with Henderson. For Henderson it was urged that he wae an accomplice rather than a principal, and that the ammonia was not directed at the eyes to blind, but at the nose and mouth to stupify. His Honor remarked that prisoners appeared callously indifferent to the consequences of using ammonia, for they repeated their offence the same night.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 95, 23 April 1931, Page 9
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