BOY KILLED BY BEATING
TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT FOR STEALING JAM LABOURER SENT TO GAOL MELBOURNE, Tuesday. Herbert Bownds, a middle-aged labourer, was today sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for manslaughter. Evidence was given to the effect that accused, on June 17, beat a boy, Albert Foster, so severely with the buckle end of a strap that the lad died. His offence was stealing some jam.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 717, 17 July 1929, Page 9
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64BOY KILLED BY BEATING Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 717, 17 July 1929, Page 9
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