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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 54, 13 June 1910, Page 4

CURRENT TOPICS KAVAfiE SENTENCES. Occasionally in New Zealand the public is treated to displays of judicial wrath •which show that Judge Jeffries is not without modern imitators. In regard to the sentence of Powelka. it is probable that the Judge looked upon the offender as a dangerous lunatic, and therefore sent ihim to <mol instead of an asvlum for the probable term of his natural life. The utter savageness of some sentences both in the colonies and in the Old Country is appalling. England is the home of the free and the land of the brave, and because of this a boy of seventeen years lately died in Wandsworth Prison of a broken heart. The youth bad stolen a piece of lead, valued at a few pence, from an empty He was sent to gaol, sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with hard dabor. He had never offended against the law before this '.arise, and aa , Q t-ien:pt was