DAMAGING A STEAMER.
TWO YEARS' IMPRISONMENT.
[IIV TELKGKAWI. —OWN' CORRESPONDENT.]
GISBORXJS, Friday. In sentencing James Campbel 1 , at the Supreme Court to-day, to two years' Imprisonment for wilfully damaging the Union Steam Ship Company's steamer Tuatea, Judge Chapman said the sentence -was, to his mind, altogether inadequate for the offence upon- which prisoner had been found guilty, but such inadequacy was due to the fact that the code did not precisely provide for such cases as this. Prisoner had been found guilty on vciy clear evidence of a most dastardly crime. If it had happened that the boat bad gone to sea—whether this was in prisoner's mind lie did not know serious disaster would have happened. His Honor had no, doubt that prisoner bad been drunk, and it was probably through recklessness caused by drink that this diabolical idea entered bis head. He bad made-matters worse by going into the witness-box and making a statement that was not trUe, in an attempt to clear himself, and his effort to get the engineer into trouble. The jury had most properly found prisoner guilty of an attempt to wilfully damage the vessel and render her useless.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13692, 7 March 1908, Page 5
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