“LAMENTABLY COMMON”
JUDGE DEPLORES SERIOUS OFFENCES LENIENT SENTENCES FUTILE “Crimes of this kind are becoming lamentably common and lenient sentences apparently do no good,” said Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court this morning in sending Edward Charles Sadler, aged 44, to gaol for two years’ hard labour for a serious offence against a boy. Prisoner was found guilty by a jury last week. On behalf of prisoner Mr. F. W. Schramm said little could be said for Sadler. He was now serving a term of probation. There was no doubt he was not physically or mentally strong. Counsel suggested a term of reformative detention so that prisoner might enjoy the benefits of an outdoor life. “I do not think this is a case where I should make the sentence one of reformative detention,” said the judge. “Had it not been for the action of the boy in arranging a trap I have no doubt that a much graver offence would have been committed.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 591, 18 February 1929, Page 1
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