RONGOTEA OUTRAGE.
HEALEY COAIMITTED TO FIVE YEARS’ DETENTION. Owen Richard Healey, a somewhat- dishevelled looking youth of 18. dressed in an ill-fitting old suit, appeared before Sir Frederick Chapman at the Wellington Supreme Court on Saturday to receive sentclnec. His offence was a serious cue upon the. wife of a farmer in the Kongo!en district, where the prisoner had been employed. The crime had been most deliberately carried out, and, as the woman was not in good health, the offence was described as a particularly bad one of its kind. “No sir,” replied the lad, when asked if he had anything to say. “You have been guilty of a very cruel crime,” sternly declared Mr Justice Chapman, “and for this I might have inflicted' the lash upon von. I propose however, to treat yon more leniently perhaps than you deserve, chiefly on account of your youth, and the fact that you admitted the offence —you made no attempt to deny your guilt, and that you did not obstruct the authorities in any way.”
Healey was sentenced to a term of five vears’ reformative detention.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2733, 15 May 1924, Page 3
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184RONGOTEA OUTRAGE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2733, 15 May 1924, Page 3
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