SEVEN YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT
SADDLE HILL SENSATION [By Telegraph—Press Association] DUNEDIN. 9th February. In the Supreme Court Wilfred Richard John Curry was sentenced to a term of imprisonment on five .charges, including one of seven years on the most serious charge, that of attempted murder, the sentences to be concurrent, seven years in all. The latter charge arose out of a sensation at Saddle Hill on the night of 29th November, j when it was alleged that aPer assaulting a man and a woman with the starting handle of a motor-car the accused fired shots at both, breaking the woman’s arm and missing the man. He was acquitted on charges in respect of the man and on sexual charges in respect of the woman.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 10 February 1938, Page 11
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