SUPREME COURT
HAMILTON SENTENCES I Hy Telegraph-Press Association! HAMILTON. 18th November. Two prisoners were sentenced in the Supreme Court at Hamilton by Mr Justice Gallon for indecent assault. Robert Henry Briggs, aged 28 years, who was found guilty yesterday of such an offence at Te Arolia, was sentenced to two years' reformative detention, and Thomas George Ward aged 48 years, who pleaded guilty to a similar charge, the olTcncc having taken place at Tp Kuiti. was sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labour.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 19 November 1937, Page 4
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84SUPREME COURT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 19 November 1937, Page 4
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