DOMINION NEWS.
SENTENCED FOR SERIOUS CRIMES. (Per Press Association.) Auckland, February 18. At the Supreme Court a young man named Lewis Weeks Byron, who was charged with indecently assaulting a small boy was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment, and a further ten years’ reformative treatment. Judge Edwards referred to the previous sentence of four years served by prisoner for a similar offence, and said he was the worst possible menace to society. A wild beast would be infinitely a loss menace to society. John O’Brien, charged with wounding John Peter Smith, with intent to do grevions bodily harm, lay stabbing with a knife in the breast and leg, was sentenced to throe years’ imprisonment. The Judge remarked that prisoner was fortunate in not being charged with murder.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 42, 18 February 1913, Page 6
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