THE PUKEHINAU AFFAIR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 92, 22 August 1913, Page 6

THE PUKEHINAU AFFAIR.

[Per Press Association.] Palmerston, August 22. Clemens, a young man, found guilty of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm to Frederick Ireland at j'Pukehinau, came up for sentence. The iChief Justice took into account the lyoutji of accused and the fact of nothing being known against him, and sentenced him to two years’ hard labor at Invercargill, and after that three years’ hard labor a—? —?—— three years’ reformative treatment, after which he would he under the control of the Prisons Board for a time. His Honor said: “You ought to see that you brought yourself very nearly to the risk of your own life. It is a marvel that Ireland was not killed. If he had been you would necessarily have lost your life also.” His Honor added that there appeared to bo something behind the shooting which did not come out in evidence.

Mrs Ireland is a slightly built woman about 33 years of ago (says the Pahiatua Herald). She was accommodated with a chair during the hearing of the charge of attempted murder at the Dannevirke Court last week, and sat almost throughout the case with her face hidden in her handkerchief. The accused Clemens either hung his head or leaned over the dock, Frederick Ireland is still suffering from the effects of the shooting. He appeared in court in a somewhat weak state and with his left hand bandaged