INVERCARGILL.
At 11 o'clock last night the jury brought in a verdict of guilty against Massey, and acquitted his wife. The Judge, in passing sentence, said there was no palliation for such a shameful breach of trust, and, more than that, that he used his wife as an instrument of crime, and endeavoured to degrade her to the same moral level as himself. The punishment provided in such cases was almost inadequate to the offence. The maximum penalty was three years penal servitude, and that was the penalty he would impose on Massey.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XII, Issue 1525, 28 April 1883, Page 2
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