WOMAN SENTENCED.
POKENO SHOOTING CASE.
AUCKLAND, February 13.
Alary Little, aged 49, who was found guilty of assaulting her husband at Pokeno so as to cause actual bodily harm, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Herdman to reformative detention not exceeding one year. The Judge said he had given the best consideration to the jury's recommendation to mercy. “Drink may have perverted your moral sense," he said to the prisoner, “but there can be no doubt that you acted with deliberation. You had cartridges in your room, you loaded the gun, and you deliberately discharged it at your husband. Fortunately for you, you did not kill him, but you have maimed your husband, and maimed him for life.' ’ It had been recommended to him that the prisoner should be confined in an inebriates' home, but he thought it better that she be under the care of an experienced and capable prison, matron. -(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 14 February 1934, Page 3
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