SLEEPING CHILD STRUCK
MAN HITS HEAD WITH BOTTLE, NINE MONTHS’ GAOL SENTENCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Dec. 1. Stating that when Stanley Redvers Buller struck a sleeping girl aged six over the head with a bottle he was fully responsible for his act, Mr. Justice - Kennedy sentenced the prisoner to nine months’ reformative detention. The medical evidence was that the prisoner showed no signs of insanity, but that, the crime could be attributed to drinking prior to the offence. The girl’s skull was fractured. The judge said the prisoner was fortunate not to be charged with murder. The true explanation of the prisoner’s conduct was that he had struck the girl to spite her father. Although it was some hours .since the prisoner took drink his mind at the time was apparently in an irritated condition. It might be said in the prisoner’s favour that when he thought he had murdered the girl he immediately went to the police and the latter’s timely assistance may have saved the girl’s life.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 1 December 1930, Page 9
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