AN UNNATURAL PARENT.
RECEIVES TWENTY YEARS IMPRISONMENT.
Auckland, May 24.
At the Supreme Court this afternoon John Andrew Showstrand, aged 49, a carpenter of Onehunga, denied a charge of committing a criminal act on a nine-year-old son. Accused was undefended by counsel. The jury returned a verdict of guilty without retiring, and the prisoner was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment, while on a further charge of incest, to which he pleaded guilty in the lower Court, he was sentenced to a further ten years’ imprisonment.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 996, 25 May 1911, Page 2
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85AN UNNATURAL PARENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 996, 25 May 1911, Page 2
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