Dominion News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 100, 1 September 1923, Page 6

Dominion News

Per Press, Association. ~ Christchurch, Septembtelr 1. After a cloudless morning, showers came up with a strong southerly, but cleared again, and at eleven o’clock there was the prospect of the tefct being played in a strong southerly wind, with the ground in good order. “A man like you is a serious menace to society,” said Justice Reed, in imposing a sentence of ten years on Thomas Brown, convicted of the mutilation of an old man at Methven. Counsel for the prisoner said he was 56 years old. He was released from prison seven or eight years ago, and was a hard worker. The; offence was due .to perverted sexuality. The judge, addressing the prisoner, said; “You ai’e rightly convicted of a serious and dastardly crime, committed deliberately, with a mind unclouded by anger or intoxication. Yon have already served ten years for incest, which points to a depraved sexuality.” Other sentences were; Arthur MoKeevir, theft of money from a man’s pocket, two years; Thoma s Edward Brosmahan, James Howart, and Clifford McTavish, conspiracy to defraud by means of a game called 7i selling a horse,” three years’ reformative. Arthur Oldfield, for the theft of two sheep, was fined £25 and ordered to pay £97 costs.