SUPREME COURT SENTENCES.
Auckland, October 17. v Justice; Stringer sentenced William Blake Knox, a middle r aged
man, to ten years' imprisonment for ' indecent assaults on males. He said the prisoner was not fit to be at large, and but for his state of i health he would have Ordered a Hogging. If the Legislature had entrustea the Court with the power, as he thought it should, he would have subjected the'prisoner to a surgical operation, which would have rendered him comparatively
harmless. Alfred James Forbes Fisher, ;who
had only been seven months in the Dominion, was admitted to two years' probation for- breaking and entering at Huntly. Robert Henry Styles, /who false•ly, stated that he had posted a packet containing money, -was also admitted to probation for two years. Edward Bqurke, who forged cheques, to t+n amount of oyer £2OO, was sen' \.;:<ii to two years' reformative treatment,
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 39, 17 October 1923, Page 6
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