WOMAN SENT TO PRISON
COMPLICITY IN SERIOUS CRIME "TOOL OF WORSE OFFENDER" (Per United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 22. " The offence was committed systematically—a deliberate crime and a profitable one," said Mr Justice Northcroft, in sentencing Agnes Burns to six months' imprisonment with hard labour on three charges of using means to procure a miscarriage. Counsel, in stressing the jury's recommendation to mercy, said that Burns took no part in the active operation her home being used as a nursing home. "It is distressing," said the judge, " to have to deal with one of your sex and advanced age. The jury considered that when it recommended mercy, and also the fact that you were clearly the tool of a worse offender, whoever that may be. This crime must be met by imprisonment, but I will not sentence you as severely as others would be, and would deserve to be."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23330, 23 October 1937, Page 11
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