Judge Speaks Of Birching To Prisoner
CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 5. j "There was a time when a judge! could have, and in this case prob- i ably would have ordered a birching," said the Chief Justice, Sir Humphrey O'Leary, in the Supreme Court this morning in sentencing Brian Patrick Michael Joseph Ward to five years' reformative detention on a charge of assault with intent to commit rape on a young woman at Hanmer. i His Honour said that the girl had been rendered unconscious and treated vilely.*
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 November 1948, Page 5
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