SUPREME COURT
SEXUAL OFFENDER
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INVEROARGILL, August 12
Robert/Fowler,' found guilty on two charges of: incest,, was sentenced to three years and six months hard labour by Judge Kennedy, who remarked that it-was a bad case.
PRISONERS SENTENCED
GISBORNE, August 13
. At the .Supreme Court this morning,Justice 'Reed, sentenced James Alexander Denny, found guilty of an attempted offence against boys, to eighteen mouths’ reformative. ■ ■
Charles . Frederick Murphy, a halfcaste Maori, who escaped from gaol earlier in the week, was sentenced to twelve months’ gaol for false pretences and theft, the sentence to be cumulative with others at present being served.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1937, Page 6
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