THE PENALTY FOR CRIME.
TWO SERIOrs OFFENCES
Electric Telegraph—Press Associaynp. Wellington, This Day.
At the Supreme Court to-day Mr Justice Chapman sentenced Thomas L&nglois, a Frenchman, to seven yearn’ imprisonment, end Caesar AA'auters. a Belgian, to six years’ imprisonment, both on charges of indecently assaulting males.
In the ease of Albert James Aidants and Robert Ralph Carr, skfimen, changed with theft, from the Corinthic, in which the jnry found that the robbery was committed while accused a state of temporary insanity, the judge ordered the prisoners to be detained in custody, and said he would state a ease for the Court of Appeal to decide the meaning of the verdict.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5353, 9 February 1916, Page 5
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