SERIOUS OFFENCE.
LONG PERIOD OF DETENTION. [RY TET.EORAFH. — OWN COTUtESrONOENT. ] FT A MILTON. Thursday fn the Supreme Court to-day Horace Benjamin Martin, aped 32. appeared for sentence in connection with three charges of indecent assault. When his counsel, Mr. T. A. Lucas, asked for leniency, His Honor Mr. Justice Herdman said prisoner had been sentenced to five years' reformative detention in 1919 for the same class of offence, and it appeared that ho had not. learnt his lesson. After he had been liberated, prisoner had taught in a Sunday school and had again offended similarly. The prisoner was sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour, to be followed by three years' reformative detention.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19731, 2 September 1927, Page 14
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