WOUNDING OF TAXIDRIVER
SEAMAN SENTENCED (PA.). WELLINGTON. August 7, Mr Justice Johnston, in the Supreme Court yesterday, sentenced Bennett Coles Middleton, aged 18, a seaman and labourer, who was found guilty last week of committing a negligent act, causing bodily harm in such circumstances that if death had followed he would have been guilty of manslaughter. A year’s imprisononment with hard labour, to be followed by three years’ reformative detention, was the sentence imposed. The trial was a sequel to the wounding of a taxi-driver, Richard Andrew Webber, with a cut-down .22 rifle in the Masterton district early on the morning of April 25. The jury did not return verdicts on alternative counts of attempted murder, attempting to render the taxidriver incapable of resistance with intent to rob him, and assault with intent to rob. but the judge directed that verdicts of not guilty be recorded.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24021, 9 August 1943, Page 3
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