LIFE IMPRISONMENT.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19463, 9 November 1928, Page 16

LIFE IMPRISONMENT.

SENTENCE PASSED ON W. J. HARDIE. (PBESS ASSOCIATION TJSLEOEAM.) „ DUNEDIN, November 8. William John Hardie, who was found guilty of manslaughter of a Chinese at Kyeburn was sentenced to-day to imprisonment with hard labour for life.

In passing sentence Mr Justice Mac» gregor said that on the evidence the jury might have convicted the prisoner Of murder. Ho could find no tmg circumstances to warrant passing less than a life sentence. It was quite plain that prisoner killed his unfortunate victim in very brutal circumstances, tie was a young man, 22 years of age, who had been in and out of the industrial schools from an early age. ' He seemed to have been incorrigible and dishonest. He had been convicted of forgery.uttering/ and theft. • or , to the passing of sentence, P" so " er % counsel said he intended to get the Judge to state a case for the Appeal Court with regard to the addeofaration. the hineSo ' B dyin * i RwL^°T^u Pros ? cutor Baid files aaowed that the prisoner seemed abnorW PTo j suggest insanity, "j Hardie differed from other people Sftrt bad little doubt that this had been the origin of the crime. +W ;# on g' kfe Honour remarked nef^f/"? gested , b y counßel » Pn'sodouJ* 1 i' 31 8 ? 8 of no BoarH +«TT Id °P en to the Prisons adrtuM? * ak !, what ifc considered SShe™",. 41,0 o! Ita Ied H away. at ° We<i °° emotion