SALUTARY SENTENCES.
GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER.!
[BY TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.) fS| GISBORNE. Tuesday. ' In the Supreme Court to-day Frances ;. Quinn, on charges of manslaughter and • procuring abortion, was sentenced to a | seven years' imprisonment, with Ave J i years* reformative detention. v:''^fss Albert Ernest Harris, on a charge W'fe;|| counselling, aiding and abetting Mrs. WM Quinn to procure abortion, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. 'i -, §M His Honor, Mr. Justice Reed, .&>*'■%s gratulated the jurors on their findings, ', which had wiped out an unclean spot in the town. If all juries would do their duty in the same manner we would soon hear less.of this class of case. . >.„■,• '■'Xfiti The charge of manslaughter ;agamrtl|^ Quinn arose out of the death of. a young woman following upon an illegal opef** tion said to have been performed i hyltneAS accused. .. * ; «iifi
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18354, 21 March 1923, Page 8
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