SERIOUS OFFENCES.
LONG TERM OF IMPRISONMENT. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 3. For brutal offences on a woman aged 65 at Ramarama, and on girl* of 13 at Waiotira, Frederick Thomas Kelly Slav escaped a flogging, but was sentenced in the Supreme Court by Mr Justice Frazer to 10 years’ imprisonment with hard labour on each of the two charges of rape the sentences to be concurrent. On the charges of theft by menace, he was sen* tcuccd to one year’s imprisonment, this term also to be concurrent. His Homir referred to tbe police report, saving that there was no suggestion that accused was mentally irresponsible, but there was a suggestion that he was mentally sub* normal But for that he would certainlv have ordered him' to be flogged.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20582, 4 December 1928, Page 10
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130SERIOUS OFFENCES. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20582, 4 December 1928, Page 10
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