TWENTY YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT.
Napier, Yesterday
George Bunn, convicted yesterday of the manslaughter of Marion Baird, aged seventy-one, at Hastings, was sentenced this morning by Mr Justice Reed to twenty years’ imprisonment with hard labour. His Honour, addressing Bunn, said: “You were rightly convicted of an abominable, atrocious crime. Many a man who has paid the penalty of his life for murder was not guilty of half the brutality you used —appalling brutality. Your crime marks you as being a creature so vile as to be unfit to associate with decent beings.” ....
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2288, 11 June 1921, Page 3
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91TWENTY YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2288, 11 June 1921, Page 3
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