A NOVEL SENTENCE.
TO GO TO CHURCH. Otis Owens, aged 38, must go to church every Sunday l'or tho next six months and also remain perfectly sober or pay a fino of £2, with costs, and serve 30 days on tho Indiana Stale Farm. This was tho novel seutcnco passed at Indianapolis, United Slates, on Owens when ho admitted that ho had just finished sevring a sentence of 40 days on the State Fxm for drunkedncss. Owens pleaded, as an extenuating circumstance, that he had not been to church since lie was a boy.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 April 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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94A NOVEL SENTENCE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 April 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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