GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER
LABOURER’S BRUTAL CRIME. TWELVE YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. United brass Assn'.—Elec Tel. Copyright. SYDNEY, Deo. 20. A labourer, Victor Pomfret, aged 38, was sentenced to-day to 12 years’ imprisonment for manslaughter, having been responsible for the death of his wife, Ellen, aged 30. The evidence showed that Pomfret violently assaulted ills wife by kicking her, although she was about 1o become a mother. This resulted in her death. Judge Sheridan described the prisoner as a loathsome person who was lucky to have escaped a charge of murder.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19765, 21 December 1935, Page 7
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