CHANGE OF PLEA
Prisoner Admits Assault
(NX. Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 15.
Basil Lawrence Moses, aged 24, a prisoner serving a threeyeer sentence at the New Plymouth Prison held Murray David Sheerer, a prison officer, in a Stranglehold to stop him breaking up a fight between two other inmates in the prison dining room last Monday evening Detec-tive-Sergeant G. Hogan told Mr A. W. Yortt, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today. Moses, who elected trial by jury when charged with assault on Wednesday, today pleaded guilty to the charge. He wee sentenced to one mouth’s imprisonment to be served cumulatively at the expiration of bls current three-year term. Mr Hogan told the Court Moses had requested to see the police at the prison last night. He then told officers of his change in' plea.
Eighteen Snrrender?— Ontario provincial police said today that aU except one of 1# men changed with murder in the killing of three lumber, jacks eeriy on Monday bed either sunendesvd or were about to give themselves up. Kspuskasing (Ontario), February It.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30058, 16 February 1963, Page 4
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176CHANGE OF PLEA Press, Volume CII, Issue 30058, 16 February 1963, Page 4
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