SENTENCE FOR ARSON
FOUR YEARS' DETENTION "MORE IN PITY THAN ANGER" [by telegraph—press association] WELLINGTON, Wednesday Saying that ho sentenced him more in pity than in anger, Mr. Justice Smith to-day imposed a sentence of four years' reformative detention on Walter Bishop, aged 23, who pleaded guilty at Pahiatua and Masterton to arson charges related to two farm houses. The Judge sairl that he imposed a long term so that his case might be investigated, and if the prisoner was a proper subject for a mental hospital, he might be sent there.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22390, 9 April 1936, Page 12
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92SENTENCE FOR ARSON New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22390, 9 April 1936, Page 12
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