SUPREME COURT SENTENCES
HAMILTON, June l(i. ! At thi* Supreme Court Frank dames AC'TntO'li, for tin ft, received two years' i - robalicn. Franoi; Corcoran for for-1 gory am! iitterinir, t'vo years’ reforma-j -five. Clinrles Alexander Campbell for' nnson at To Kuiti, two years reforma- i tive. ROrTI-KDOK CASK STCNTKNC’K. KAAIII/rON. .lone Iff. Herbert llolernte. Alfred Clover. I.eonard (frondy and !*ifliarcl l)alv wire found uni Itv of erievons hodilv ha-rm at Kopaki. Justice TTerdman said the assault on Rootled m we brutal in the extreme, but be would take into consideration tliat the prisoners were not of tho priinrml class and that llion characters bad previously boon mioil '['he crime was eommitled when boated with drink, but drunkenness was no excuse, and who tliev were fools cnonub to drink to excess and plav the part of cowardly hollies thov most pay for their unlawful hehavienr. His Honour paid a trlowinp tribute to Hangers and seal t>n- must he prnteeted. He wo,id' take into e„u«id i-tion that the Jury found the nrhoor v■> <'ndtv m i the more serious offence of nttomptoil i murder, and sontotirod them to twelve months’ hard labour.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1922, Page 3
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