“BEHAVED LIKE MANIAC”
JUDGE’S COMMENT IN ASSAULT CASE P.A. AUCKLAND, May 19. “You behaved like a maniac toward this man, who is disfigured for life,” the Chief Justice, Sir Humphrey O’Leary, told Henry Howard Priestly, a trainee carpenter, aged 27, before him for sentence on a charge of causing actual bodily harm to Thomas Patrick Quirk. The assault took place near St. Benedict’s Church on the evening of February 28. when two Roman Catholic priests intervened. Quirk was sent to hospital with a fractured jaw and other injuries. The judge, placing Priestly on 18 months’ probation, said he was giving effect to the jury’s recommendation for leniency. Whatever provocation he had did not justify the prisoner going to the length he had done. The. judge directed Priestly to pay £2O in instalments for the grievious injury done.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26776, 20 May 1948, Page 2
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