Found Guilty on their Third Trial.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11286, 21 June 1904, Page 5

Found Guilty on their Third Trial.

NEW PLYMOUTH, June 21.

At ,the Supreme Court,- tyojnen, George , Thomas Button , and -Henry^.Avenall, on, their third trial on a ehatfge of committing an offence at Hawera in March laat^.'tte.n found gnilty'.and sentenced- to 'thxee~yearV _••-„ hard labour each. „Mr .Justice Edwards,' im_' passing sentence, remarked that he . hwt ■■ taken the l character •of ther -woman into ' consideration/ --and only gave the m;ett ' three years,' but had the offence been on, ; another woman the men would hare gpna in young men and come out middle-»jjed.