SERIOUS OFFENCE
MAN BEFORE COURT R E FUB MAT 1V E DETEN TI ON [ Per Press Association. J PALMERSTON N., Aug. 6. Described as a labourer with no relatives in New Zealand, Edwarc. Sedgwick, 48, appeared Jor sentence on a serious offence against a boy, to which he last week pleaded guilty. The probation officer's report stated that prisoner had been a patient tor a period in an asylum as a resist el head injuries received in the war. His lai-se had occu.red after drinking methylated spirits, and the drink had aggravated tne effect of his ixjur.es. Accused said he had drunk methylated spirits to relieve intense rheumatic pains, and he had net tn..\ been responsible for his act.on. His Honour said that the proper course for him to take was io enable accused to receive treatment, and then il.e case could be reconsideiml. He would puss sentence not as a punishment, but to enable accused to be looked after in the particular institution to which he would go. Imposing a sentence of reformative detention tor a period not exceeding four years, His Honour said this would cnaltle this course to be followed, and it permitted i the case to be reconsidered every three . months.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 183, 7 August 1935, Page 8
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