POUNDED GLASS IN JAM.
TWO YEARS' IMPRISONMENT. In the Hobavfc Supreme Court William Wakefield was sentenced to two years* imprisonment on a charge of attempting to do grievous bodily harm to George Briars, a small fruitgrower, of Lachlan, by mixing pieces of jagged glass in a Jx>ttle of cherry jam from which Briars wau in the habit The evidence ohowed that Wakefield lived in Briars' house for two years. Misconduct occurred between Wakefield and Briars' wife, and Wakefield, several times refused to leave the house. Finally, when Briars threatened to have him thrown out, Wakefield went away. To revenge himself on Briars he pounded up glass with an axe and placed some of it in the jam in a hut situated on land belonging to Briars, which he occasionally worked. Briars took a mouthful of bread and jam at lunch, but noticed the glass, and spat; it out. . •'•'.'•-" The Judpe, in imposing the sentence, said the prisoner was iucky not to have had to answer a capital charge. He characterised the crime as horrible.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18171, 17 August 1922, Page 9
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