SOUTHLAND SESSIONS
"A DISQUIETING AMOUNT OF CRIME." By Telegraph—Press Association INVERCARGILL, August 14. The quarterly session of the Supreme Court opened this morning before His Honour, Mr Justice Kennedy. There is a long list of criminal and civil cases. “I regret that I must tell you that the list of business for this criminal session discloses a disquieting amount of crime in your district,” said His Honour, in his address to the grand jury. “You have not escaped the wave of breaking and entering. Three persons with pleas of guilty await sentence on charges of breaking and entering. Accusations are to be made against seven persons, and in three cases 13 charges of breaking and entering are involved. In some instances two or more persons are said to have acted in concert, and there is some duplication in the charges to which I refer, but even allowing for this it remains that crime has been unusually prevalent in Southland.” Hugo Healey was found guilty of being intoxicated while in control of a motor car, and by his failure to exercise proper care, causing the death of Samuel George Inder, his brother-in-law. Accused was remanded for sentence. The jury strongly recommended mercy on the ground of the mental stress which accused must have suffered by reason of the death of his brother-in-law.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19568, 15 August 1933, Page 10
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221SOUTHLAND SESSIONS Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19568, 15 August 1933, Page 10
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