YEAR’S GAOL
SHOOTING IN PARK (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Fob. 17. A sentence of 12 months’ imprisonment with hard labour was imposed by Mr Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court to day on Stanley Gordon Douglas, aged 37, labourer, who was found guilty of a charge of discharging a firearm in Hagley Park with intent to maim.
His Honour said that drink apparently had an infuriating effect on Douglas, but notwithstanding that, he had drunk himself into a state in which, he was a menace. Douglas was fortunate that he was not in the dock on a charge of murder, as he might easily have been. \
Mr J. K. Maloney, counsel for Douglas, said that the prisoner had -not the silghtest idea Avhere he had got the rifle or ammunition, and remembered nothing about the incidents in South Hagley Park.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 107, 18 February 1950, Page 4
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138YEAR’S GAOL Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 107, 18 February 1950, Page 4
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