FOURTEEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENT.
(Pek Pbess Association.) AUCKLAND, May 26. In the Supreme Court Mr Justice Chapman, in sentencing William John Frederick Moore, a young man, charged with a grave assault on a girl at Warkworth, described the offence as one of the gravest crimes he ever heard of, being attended with a degree of brutality seldom heard of in New Zealand. It was scarcely possible to conceive a woree case as far as foulness and cruelty was concerned. He imposed a sentence of fourteen years hard labour and ordered two floggings, each of 20 strokes, to be administered.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9222, 26 May 1910, Page 8
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98FOURTEEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9222, 26 May 1910, Page 8
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