DELIBERATE CRIME
A WOMAN SENTENCED | Per Press Association. ] CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 22. “The offence was committed’systematically—a deliberate crime and a profitable one,” said Judge Northcroft, in sentencing Agnes Burns to six months’ hard labour on three charges of using means to procure miscarriage. Counsel, in stressing the jury’s recommendation to mercy, said that Burns took no part in the active operation, her home being used as a nursing home. “It is distressing,” said the Judge, “to ha,ve to deal with one of your sex and advanced age. The jury considered that when it recommended mercy, and also the fact that .you were clearly the tool of a worse offender, whoever that may be. This crime must be met by imprisonment, but I will not sentence you as severely as others w n uld be and deserve to be.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 252, 23 October 1937, Page 10
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137DELIBERATE CRIME Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 252, 23 October 1937, Page 10
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