AN OLD MAN'S SIN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 83, 8 December 1913, Page 6

AN OLD MAN'S SIN.

MAIN TRUNK SENSATION. [Per Press Association.] Auckland, December 8., An old man named Joseph Davis, 75 years of age, who caused a sensation in the height of the strike excitement by reporting that he had found gelignite on the rails on the .Main Trunk railway just before the Wellington express was due, pleaded guilty at the Supreme Court this morning to a charge to do grievous bodily harm. He laid two plugs of gelignite with fuse and detonators attached, at the Green Lane railway station. Judge Edwards recognised that accused had hitherto bore good character, and that no doubt the offence was duo entirely to a weakening of his mind with advanced years, but that very circumstance made him more dangerous to the community. He sentenced Davis to reformative treatment not exceeding five years.