SUPREME COURT.
SENTENCES AT NEW PLYMOUTH. (BV TRU'OHKPH- -ORKKK »T **' NEW. PLYMOUTH, May 25, At the Supreme Court David George stella, aged 20, for common assault upon a married woman near Kaponga, was sentenced to detention at the Borstal Institute for a period not exceeding two years. Stanley George Harwood, for indecent acts with a litte girl 'at Eltham, was sentenced to reformative detention for a period not exceeding two years.
The hearing was conduced at Christchurch on Saturday of the stamp duty case, in which the defendant is Frederick Wilding, K.C. After Roydon Grainger, the defendant’s chief clerk, had given evidence the magistrate reserved his decision. As the result of the explosion of a detonator at Waihi, three members of James Kemp’s family were more or less iniurecl. On his way home from work at Waihi at G. McCoy’s smithy, Kemp (iunr.) pi keel up a detonator, and decided that it might be used loi a hicvcle laran. To fit it he commenced beating it ovit. and the explosion followed. His litte finger was blown oft, and he was peppered on the chest with flying; inotai. His sisters/ 18 and ll years of age. who were close b.V, were the other victims, the elder receiving wounds in the side and arms, while the other had an eye badly injured.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 May 1925, Page 10
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