HAYNE'S SENTENCE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 81, 10 August 1923, Page 5

HAYNE'S SENTENCE

SEVEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENT. THE JUDGE ON JURIES. Per Press Association, Dunedin, August 10. .James Reynolds Hayno was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for procuring abortion. Mr A. O. Hanlon, for tho prisoner, who gave his ago as seventy-ono, stated that he was crippled with rheumatism and suffered with a. bad heart, in ewhich circumstances he asked tho Judge to give the utmost weight to the jury's recommendation for mercy. Judge Sim stated that he always treated the jury's recommendation with respect. According to the polico report, it was common knowledge, that Hayne was an abortionist of some skill, who several times stood his trial. In view of the police report and the circumstances of tho present case, his plain, dxity a* to imposo a substantial term, which would have been much longer but for tho jury's recommendation. •Tudgo Sim added to the prisoner: ''Hitherto juries have displayed a curious reluctance to convict. In your case, however, there is evidence —may bo happily—that the reluctance has been overcome, and that at length twelve men have been found prepared to observe the oath taken and return a verdict according to tho evidence. Dunedin has been redeemed from the reproach of being a city where a notorious abortionist was able to carry on and laugh at. the law."