BLACKMAIL CASE
DETERRENT SENTENCE ■ ' . i THREE YEARS' IMPRISONMENT < V. ' ■ . ...J- :: r.' j 't;BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] /CHRISTOEURCH, Friday j, Sentence of three years' imprisonment with hard tabour was imposed today by Mr. Justice Northcroft on Joseph Dyer, found guilty of blackmail.
"You have been found guilty of blackmail, which is in the next most serious category to murder," the Judge told Dyer. "Only murder, which is punishable by death, carries a heavier penalty, for blackmail is punishable by imprisonment for life, so seriously is it regarded by reason of the ease and persistence with which it can be committed, its difficulty of detection and its direful results.
"Yours is a particularly bad example of the worst of offences and it is my duty to pass such a sentence as will deter others from it "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22961, 12 February 1938, Page 18
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134BLACKMAIL CASE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22961, 12 February 1938, Page 18
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