BOY MURDERER
THREE YEARS GAOL. (Australian Press Association). . (Received this day at 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Nov. 27„ ; Erie Pike, aged fifteen, to-day pleaded guilty to manslaughter of John Smith, cabled on 22nd October., and was sentenced to three yi-.ars bard labour with subsequent detention in a reformatory. The charge was originally one of murder. The Judge, in passing sentence, said, “Your youth saves you from the hanging you so well deserve.’’
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1929, Page 4
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71BOY MURDERER Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1929, Page 4
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