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(Per United Press Association). NAI'IEB, February 14. At tho Supreme Court, Alexander MeCutcheon, for lending a threatening letter to Dr Moore, was sentenced to five years' penal servitudo, and the same period on each of three charges of forgery, sentences to run concurrently. Alex. McCutcheon, who was sentenced to five yearß* ponal servitudo at Nopier •yesterday for sending a threatening letter to aDr Moore, a Napier medical man. It seems the prisoner's wife was put under chloroform by tbe doctor for a slight operation, no one else being present in the room The prisoner subsequently wroto accusing Dr Moore of criminally assaulting her when under the drug, and claiming £250; in default, threatening prosecution. The sentence is severe, but the crime was a very serious one, and one that doctors are always afraid of beiDg subjected to. If they would take the prudent course of insisting on the presence of a third party on such occasions, as most cautious practitioners do, there -would be fewer casos of the above type.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8400, 14 February 1894, Page 3
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