SERIOUS OFFENCE
FiVE YEARS' DETENTION'
"Had, you been an older man the Court might hay been compelled to adopt a rather drastic course: in a case like this corporal punishment is.very frequently added, and, as I say, had you been older that course would have been followed," said.Mr.'-Justice Blair, in the Supreme Court today, in sentencing Maxwell Taylor,.a farm labourer, aged 18.J, to flve years' reformative detention for assault causing bodily harm, and attempted rape. The offences were committed in Dannevirke. against the wife of the prisoner's, employer. ' : ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 11
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88SERIOUS OFFENCE Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 11
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