A REVOLTING CASE.
TWENTY YEARS' HARB LABOUR. . . —. . . tor TIXEGISArH.— ASSOCIATION] Wellikctox, Friday. j At the Supremo Court to-day Albert Ifwry' Hughes, a man about- 25- years* of «|*» was - convicted •of . committing .- a ' scrips ' • -,; offence at Petono against a git! bo years of age. Mr. Wilson (counsel •'->* prisoner) said . that tho prisoner had , , had two kinds of fever,' and had beoft under a doctor on' several' occasions:" Mr. :' Justice Chapman replied that that was entirely a matter for the jraol authoritefc Addressing tho prisoner, His : Honor sail | that this was the worst case bo had eve* had to deal with. Ho had known peopl« to bo hanged for such offences in'the neighbouring States. He did not think it nece*-; j I sary to pass a sentence of life, although he mio-htihavo somo difficulty in giving reasons for not doing bo. ; The sentence must, however, be a very long term indeed, so' long that he did not deem it necessary to add the punihment of flogging. Tho only sentence. that he could consistently pass for this out* rage was 20 years' imprisonment I wi t b--' l,l * t *>' labour, and that sentence was accordingly ;-' passed. . ."". ■ ' .' ''■'", ■>
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14906, 3 February 1912, Page 8
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