TWO YEARS’ GAOL
MAN’S GRAVE OFFENCE (Por Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A sentence of two years’ reformative detention, passed in the Supreme Court to-day on Harold Ernest Blinker. aged 22. a labourer, for assault on a 12-vear-old girl with intent to commit rape. The Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, said (he prisoner was not the only person to be considered. The girl had had an experience which would be one of horror throughout her whole life. What effect it might have upon her no one could tell. Whatever the effect, the prisoner was responsible.
I-lis Honour also remarked on the prisoner being a member of the Special Force at Trentham and disgracing the King’s uniform.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20107, 29 November 1939, Page 7
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116TWO YEARS’ GAOL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20107, 29 November 1939, Page 7
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