A VILE CREATURE.
TWENTY YEARS’ HARD LABOR. (Per Press Association.l NAPtFiR, this day. George Dunn, convicted yesterday of manslaughter of Marian Baird, aged il years, at Hastings,' under circumstances of callous brutality, was sentenced this morning bv Mr. Justice Reed to twenty years’ hard labor. 11 is Honor, in addressing Dunn, said: "You have been righllv convicted of an abominable, atrocious ’ crime. Many a man wlm lias paid the penalty of his lilc tor murder was not guilty of half the brutality you used. 1 lie appalling brutality ol your crime marks you as being a creature so vile as to he unfit to associate with decent beings.’’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15542, 10 June 1921, Page 3
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108A VILE CREATURE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15542, 10 June 1921, Page 3
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