SUPREME COURT.
f'liv —”• m j’Kf ss ASSoriATio\./ SI:XU \ I PERVERT S EXTENT ED. DUNEDIN, Feb. 12. \ - jp.. ci iminai sittings William Pa* rick Sheehan, for incest was sen--1 cured to the maximum of ten years’ impi 1 oo.mont and one year each on two charges of indocent assault, the sentenced to he cumulative. It was stated prisoner had six children. TTe enlisted in 1914 and served in Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine and was badly wounded in August 191->. lie rejoined the army after being discharged and was again wounded and enlisted again in 1917. The medical evidence showed prisoner was a sexual pervert. George Philip Pliaftey, for indecent assault, was sentieiieed to three years’ reformative treatment. The Grand Jure found a no Dili against John William Benjamin Campbell, charged with indecent assault ori a. hoy. 11l Hie ease of Sheehan who was sentenced to twelve years, Mr. Adam-, the Crown Prosecutor stated that the prisoner committed the crime under circumstances amounting to rape. Ho had attacked his daughters and brutally threatened them with murder.
MOO 11 AN ON TRIAD. WANGANUI'. Feh. 12. Tlie Supreme Court opened to-day, Mr Justice Reed prodding. A true bill was returned in the case ol Moghan charged with murder at Taihapo.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1924, Page 3
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205SUPREME COURT. Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1924, Page 3
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