THE SUNNYSIDE CASE.
ACCUSED FOUND GUILTY. [Per Press (Association.] Christchurch, August 23. The hearing of the charge against Joseph .Martin Chapman of striking Charles Thomas McMeekin, an inmate of Sunnyside Mental Hospital, was concluded at the Supreme Court toclnv. After a retirement of 45 minutes, the jury returned a verdict o! guilty. Mr Donnelly asked that', in view o! the good record of accused during th< past nine years in which he had served as attendant at the Mental Hospital, some clemency should In shown. He had come From Honnfwith high credentials, and during his .service at the hospital had not had : mark against him. ~ Elis Honor said that he would have been glad to have moderated the sentence, but ho had to consider the nature of the offence, wbic'u was ; most serious one. He felt that he was only doing his duty in imposing tin maximum penalty of two wars' imprisonment.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 94, 25 August 1913, Page 7
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152THE SUNNYSIDE CASE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 94, 25 August 1913, Page 7
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