READY FOR GAOL
GARDENER A PHYSICAL WRECK MENTAL TREATMENT ORDERED (From Our Oven Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-day. A humane view of the case in which Frederick William Cornford Goucher, a gardener, aged 29, was charged on five counts of indecent assault, was taken by Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court to-day. Mr. J. F. Strang, for accused, said the case had special features. The prisoner, who was quite unable to control himself, was a mental and physical wreck. His mental weakness was not the result of his habits, but the habits were an outcome of his mental weakness. Prisoner was willing to submit co any treatment which gave reasonable hope of cure. He would willingly go to gaol for 10 years if he could come out cured. Medical evidence showed, that accused was a wreck. His Honour said he did not consider the prisoner was criminal. He was a sick man to whom imprisonment would do no good. Accused was ordered reformative detention for a period not exceeding three years, so that an effort might be made for the Mental Department to consider his case.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 525, 30 November 1928, Page 13
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185READY FOR GAOL Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 525, 30 November 1928, Page 13
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