CRIME AGAINST GIRL
TEN YEARS’ GAOL NEW TRIAL SUGGESTED (Special to THE SUN.') CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. For what he described as a brutal crime against a girl, Mr. Justice Adams in the Supreme Court sentenced Treavo Gardiner to 10 years* imprisonment. Gardiner was found guilty after trial a fortnight ago and sentence was deferred so that counsel for the defence, Mr. F. D. Sargent, might make inquiries as to the girl’s character. Before Gardiner was sentenced tliis afternoon, Mr. Sargent said he proposed to make application to the Governor-General for a new trial, as a result of information given him since Gardiner was before the Court. The Crown Prosecutor, Mr. A. T. Donnelly, said he had had police inquiries made into the statement to which Mr. Sargent referred, and a detective had reported that he was satisfied the man who made the statement was deliberately making a false accusation against the girl because she refused to have anything to do with him at the Exhibition. . His Honour, in passing sentence, said he agreed entirely with the verdict of the jury, whether or not there was any grounds for the application for a new trial.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 56, 28 May 1927, Page 11
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193CRIME AGAINST GIRL Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 56, 28 May 1927, Page 11
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