GIRL ASSAULTED ON LONELY ROAD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3941, 11 May 1929, Page 2

GIRL ASSAULTED ON LONELY ROAD.

ASSAILANT SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS. Auckland, Last Night. Sentence of four years’ reforma'ive detention was ilmposed by Mr. lustier Blair in the Supreme Court ■n Edward Russell Everett, who was found guilty of attempted rape. His Honour said that as far as women were concerned, these were really the most, serious eases that came before the court. “Your ease is a very bad one,” he said to prisoner. “You attacked this girl on a lonely road and had vop not been interrupted, there is not the -slightest doubt that a very great wrong would have been done to the girl. Had it not been for the recommendation of the jury, I would have felt it my duty to impose a very long sentence hut I always feel that I must give full effect to such a vecomjmendation. The jury made its recommendation on account of your youth but yon are not so young as you look. Yoil arc 29 years of age. certainly ought to have known belter. The sentence would have been a very lengthy one but T Will to the .jnrv's recommendation to Ibis extent, that T will impose on yon a sentence of reformative detention for a period of -four years.”