WOMAN'S CRIME.
"DELIBERATE," SAYS JUDGE
SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT
(By Tclcitraiili. — Press Association.) CHRISTCHI RC H. this day. "The offence was committed systematically- a deliberate crime and a profitable one." said Mr. Justice Northcroft to-day in sentencing Agnes Rurns to six months' hard labour on three charges of using mea;is to procure a miscarriage. Counsel, in stressing the jury's recommendation to mercy, said Rurns took no part in the active operation, her home being used as a nursing home. "It is distressing." said the judge, "to have to deal with one of your sex and advanced age. The jury considered that when it recommended mercy and also the fact that you were clearly the tool of a worse offender, whoever that may be. This crime must be met by imprisonment but I will not sentence you as severely as others would be and would deserve to be."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 251, 22 October 1937, Page 3
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