THREE YEARS
PENALTY OF BLACKMAIL SERIOUBLY- REGARDED CRIME LIABLE TO LIFE SENTENCE (By Teleyrapn.—press Association) CHRISTCHURCH. Friday A sentence of three years’ imprisonment with hard labour was imposed to-day by Mr Justice Northcroft on Joseph l)yer. found guilty of blackmail. " You have been found guilty of blackmail, which is in the next most serious category to murder,” the judge told Dyer. "Only murder, which is punishable by death, carries a heavier penalty, for blackmail is punishable by imprisonment for life, so seriously is it regarded by reason of the ease and persistence with which it can be committed, its difficult) of detection and its direful results. Yours is a particularly had example of the worst of offences and it is my duly l 0 pass such a sentence as will deter others from it.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20421, 11 February 1938, Page 8
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