GAOL FOR ATTEMPTED RAPE

Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1929, Page 13

GAOL FOR ATTEMPTED RAPE

JURY RECOMMENDS MERCY. JUDGE ACCEDES TO REQUEST. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. A sentence of four years’ reformation detention was imposed by Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court, to-day on Edward Russell Everett, found guilty of attempted rape. The judge said that as far as women were concerned these were really the most serious cases that came before the court. “Your case is a very bad one,” he said to prisoner. “You attacked this girl on a lonely road and had you not been interrupted there is not the slightest doubt that very great wrong would have been done to tho girl. Had it not been for the recommendation of the jury I would have felt it my duty to impose a very long sentence, but I always feel that 1 must give full effect to such recommendation. “The jury made the recommendation on account of your youth, but you are not so young as you look. 'You are 29 years of age; you certainly ought to have known better. “The sentence would have been a very lengthy one, but I will give effect to the jury’s recommendation to this extent that I will impose on you a sentence ’of reformative- detention for a period- of four years.’.’