TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1922, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

BY TI.LgUHAPH -PRESS ASSN., COl' RIGHT

SENTENCES ON HaRLANDS. DUNEDIN, November 11

Stewart Cecil Harland was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, and Heatherbelle Hailand to two and a half years’ imprisonment for concealment of birth.

Addressing the Harlands, in passing sentence, the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) said: The jury have found you both guilty of concealment of birth—that is, that the dead body of the little I,ab.v found in Park Street rolled up in a towel and brown paper was your child. It is a harrowing story and I do not desire to dwell on it. How anyone could have strangled your child I cannot conceive. I must assume you were not the slayers of your firstborn. You treatment, however, of the poor body after death was revolting, and in years to come T should think you will never be .able to efface the sad memory of your conduct. The Grimes Amendment Act gives me power to impose n sentence of reformative detention not exceeding ten years. Were I unduly to extend tho : term it might he thought I was punishing you for a crome of which you were found not guilty. His Honor then passed sentence as above.