PENALTY OF CRIME.
PRISONERS SENTENCED. : (by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, Nov. 3. ' At the Supreme Court, David William Fisher, aged 18, who took £2OO and gave, his ailing wife a holiday in Australia, and who on returning committed a second theft of a minor character,, was sentenced to six months’ reformative treatment. Sir • Robert Stout said he could not grant probation on account of the second, offence, hut gave as light punishment as he could: Inflict. Frederick Charles Moody, guilty of an indecent action towards a girl, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. The judge said the case had been one of grave trouble to him, and he could not possibly grant probation in face of what was happening in New Zealand at the present time, although the accused’s case presented exceptional characteristics.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 November 1924, Page 7
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