SUPREME COURT.
LIGHT SENTENCE FOR THE MAN WHO SHOT AIR HEWITT.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Napier, last night. In the Supremo Court George Woodward, who pleaded guilty to theft of the Weber Road Board funds, was admitted to two years’ probation and ordered to pay £lO costs. Charles Maxwell, convicted of causing actual bodily harm by shooting T. Hewitt at Wairoa, was released on his own recognisance of £IOO, and ordered to come up for sentence when called on. The Judge remarked that he did not believe the shooting was intentional. Tokomauri was convicted of practising pretended witchcraft, and sentenced to one year. Judge Edwards said such cases must be put down with an iron hand, with a view to the suppression of tohungaism. It was only by imposing heavy penalties that the influence of these so-called tohungas amongst tho natives would be broken.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 221, 25 September 1901, Page 2
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