WOMAN COLLAPSES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 149, 16 February 1932, Page 5

WOMAN COLLAPSES

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SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS GAOL ON SERIOUS CHARGE AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT

— By Telegraph — Copyright.)

AUCKLAND, Monday. A number of prisoners were sentenced at the Supreme Sourt to-day. In sentencing Margaret Bodman Arnott to three years' reformative treatment for unlawfully using an instrument, His Honour, Mr. Justice Herdman said: "It may be tbat the girl and others concerned were just as guilty as you, but the law looks on your offence as a grave one." Prisoner collapsed on hearing the sentence and was carried from the dock. A former stoker in the navy named A'ndrew Inglis Carswell, found guilty of common assault, was sentenced to the maximum penalty of 12 months' Mrd labour. "How the jury found you guilty of assault, and not of a niore serious offence, is to me incomprehensible," said His Honour. "You came from the hotel and intended to fight. An unfortunate man attempted to make peace; you followed him and struck him, and the outcome was his death. You left him on the roadfido arid bolted. In my opinion you liehaved like a half-drunken bully." Thomas Henry Tucker, on eight charges of indecent assault, received seven years' hard laborir. He had served seven years before for similar offences.