DESPERADO SENTENCED.
Hamilton, June 7. li’obin Jasper Crago, who recently escaped from Waikeria Prison ami assaulted a taxi-driver named iidward James Peebles by, lialf-.-Irangling him with u cord in ;iti endeavour to seize his ear, was sentenced In the Supreme Court by Mr .(usl ice Cooper |o live years’ additional reformat ive I realmeiif. Ci'itgo is at present serving a sent emu? of ten years’ reformative treatment for attempted murder at Auckland. The position now is that Crago will not be senluneed until the Court of Appeal has decided the point whether a Supreme Court Judge hits power to remit a period of reformative treatment: after it has been imposed.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1723, 9 June 1917, Page 3
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110DESPERADO SENTENCED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1723, 9 June 1917, Page 3
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