"NOT IN ANGER BUT IN PITY"
"I sentence you not in anger but in pity," said Mr. Justice Smith in the Supreme Court today in imposing a term of four years' reformative detention upon Walter Bishop, aged 23, who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Courts in Pahiatua and Masterton to two charges of arson. His Honour- remarked that the charges referred to two farm houses. It was clear that the prisoner had had a very unfortunate life, and that he was sub-normal. "I must treat you for purposes of sentence," he said to the prisoner, "as a person who understands what he is doing, and who is responsible for his crimes within the meaning of the Crimes Act. I propose to sentence you to a long term so that your base may be investigated and if you are a proper subject for a mental hospital you may be sent there."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 84, 8 April 1936, Page 8
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150"NOT IN ANGER BUT IN PITY" Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 84, 8 April 1936, Page 8
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