PENALTIES FOR CRIME
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHUECH, This Day. Prisoners wove sentenced nt the Supreme Court to-day. Walter Grimshaw <2L>), single, for indecent assault on a boy anel a gill, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The Judge said that the accused, while canvassing from' house to house, had committed a dreadful offence. Albert Edward Herbert Vince, for bigamy, was sentenced two years' imprisonment.. Mr. Justice Adams said that it was the worst case of bigamy he had hoard of for some time. The accused had arrived in New Zealand in 1921, and married first one woman, lived with another, and then committed bigamy by marrying a third. Kobert Middleton, for indecent assault on his stepdaughter, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1929, Page 9
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122PENALTIES FOR CRIME Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1929, Page 9
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