A FOOLISH MAN.
THREE YEARS FOR THREATENING SIR JOSEPH WARD.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, last night. Moore, charged with writing threatening letters to the Acting-Premier, was again before the Court this morning, when medical evidence was called as to accused's mental state. This went to show that though Moore might be deemed strange, he was quite sane. The reason attributed by him for writing the threatening letters was to secure notoriety or to compel the publication of the reports he had prepared for the Government on the meat industry.
Moore was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on the charge of threatening to kill the Acting-Premier. Mr Justice Edwards, in sentencing Moore, said that it was a most painful cese, and although Moore probably did not intend to carry out his threat, public men and the public generally had to be protected from such actions. The sentence would act as a warning.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 515, 30 August 1902, Page 3
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