SENTENCED FOR'ARSON
PRISONER DESCRIBED AS SOCIAL NUISANCE (Per United Press Association! CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 11. “ I can ’y take the view that you are a social nuisance of a particularly dangerous type,” said Mr Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court to-day in sentencing Robert Henry Butcher, single, aged 40, to three years’ reformative detention on a charge of arson. Counsel said that Butcher was subnormal, but medical opinion did not consider . him suitable for a mental institution.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24401, 12 September 1940, Page 8
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