PRISONER SENTENCED
REFORMATIVE DETENTION ' J Found guilty on two counts of indecent r.7™ult*on boys, William Norman Adamson, single, aged 51, was sentenced to two years' reformative detention by Mr. Justice Callan in the Supreme Court yesterday. "It is not a bad case, but sufficient has emerged to make it clear that he is not, fit to be at large in the interests of society," said His Honor, after counsel for prisoner, Mr. Slipper, had emphasised that the man was not a hardened pervert.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23488, 27 October 1939, Page 14
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