BREAD AND WATER
PRISONER WHO HIT WARDER From Our Oicn Correspondent NEW PLYMOUTH, Today Bread and water for 14 days was the sentence imposed on a prisoner in the New Plymouth Gaol for striking a warder, by Air. R. W. Tate, S.M., in the Xew Plymouth Magistrate's Court on Saturday. The prisoner was John James McCarthy who is at present serving a sentence of 10 years. The prison superintendent asked the magistrate to punish the offender under the most severe clause.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 923, 17 March 1930, Page 16
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81BREAD AND WATER Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 923, 17 March 1930, Page 16
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