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Woman Receives Six Months Hard Labour
(By Telegraph-
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. ''The offence was pommitted systematically — a deliberate crime and a profitable one," said Mr. Justice Northcroft, in sentencing Agnes Burns to six months' hard labour on three charges of using means to procure a miscarriage. Counsel, in stressing the jury recommendation to mercy, said that Burns I took no part in the active operation her home being used as a nursing liome "It is distressing," said the Judge j *'to have to deal with one of your sex and advanced age. The jury considered that when it recommended mercy, and also the fact that you were clearly the tool of a worse offender — whoever that may be. This crime must be lrtet by imprisounient, but I will not sentence you as severely w others would be and l V'ould^deservo^fo^be)1'
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 25, 22 October 1937, Page 5
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