“CURING” DEAFNESS
SENTENCE ON LEWIS. (Per United Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, May 10. Alfred Lewis, in the Supreme Court today, was sentenced to be detained for reformative treatment for a term not exceeding twelve months, for obtaining £33 from Mrs Flora Hill, whom he guaranteed to cure of deafness. Mr Justice Adams said he must consider prisoner’s offence in the light of its effect on the public generally. The jury had found that a woman suffering from incurable deafness was guaranteed a perfect cure, and that prisoner had taken her money. His Honour said he felt somewhat embarrassed, on account of the evident undesirableness of sentencing a man like the prisoner to imprisonment with hai*d labour, because of the possible effects on him. It was a question between probation and reformative treatment. He would commit the prisoner for reformative treatment. The Prison Board then would use its discretion as to how long the prisoner should serve, and would decide whether or not he should be licensed and let out on probation. A term of detention, not exceeding twelve months, should bo sufficient.
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Southland Times, Issue 18938, 11 May 1923, Page 5
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