SUPREME COURT
PRISONERS SENTENCED. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, July 28. At the Supreme Court Sir Robert Stout senteiiced Percy Arnold Mortensen, aged 17, to two years’ reformative detention on two charges of carnal knowledge. Albert Henry Hughes, on charges of indecent assault on a male and female, was sentenced ito two years and three years respectively, and was . declared an habitual criminal. His Honor said it was a sad ease. In 1912 prisoner was sentenced to twenty years for rape, and the Prisons Board had released him after the sentence had half expired, ancl now he was before the Court again. There should be an institution between the gaol and the asylum for such cases.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 July 1924, Page 7
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